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    Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

    Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike

    The First Real Mac Google Chrome Beta Coming in December

    A 16 Terabyte Drive in the Google Cloud, $4096 a Year

    Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine

    How To Hack Google Maps Navigation Onto Your G1

    Google Latitude Gets Creepy With Location History And Alerts

    Google Maps Shows You the Way to Your Swine Flu Vaccine

    Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude

    Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Why do we assume it's the fire truck that made the little old lady fall over? An equally plausible explanation is that Google's face-blurring technology temporarily disoriented her, causing her to lose control of her bike. #googlestreetview
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    11/11/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The new Genius Bar system allows you to make reservations further in advance than the old one, which was limited to just a few days. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/11/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    "Google Cuts Price of Online Storage by 800%"

    Something is wrong with this sentence... #gizmodoremainders
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    11/11/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: "Today, Google inched ever closer to being the most powerful force in the modern world."

    Better? Worse? #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/11/09

    @yule-and-bellow: No - I mean if something initially costs $100 and someone says prices are cut by 50%, this means that the new price is $50. If they say prices are cut by 100%, this means the new price is zero. If you say the price is cut by 800%, this means the new price is -$700. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/11/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: @Hello Mister Walrus: "Google Cuts Price Of Online Storage by 87.5%"

    I think thats right, you can tell me if I am or not because you're first comment flew right over my head, proving you have the superior mind of us two...or google is paying people massive amounts of money to have all the data in the world put in their cloud...further inching them closer to world domination
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    It's the Netherlands, so 50/50 at least one person in that photo is high. #googlestreetview
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    11/11/09

    @badhatharry: My money's on the old lady. Next time yield to an emergency response vehicle, grandma! #googlestreetview
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    What's more important, one old lady on a bike, or potentially your computer (and the implied collection of porn and torrented movies therein) that's currently at risk in a serious structure fire?

    That's what I thought.... #googlestreetview
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    Image of Arnold Qin Arnold Qin
    11/11/09

    @met2art: I'm sorry but that old lady is. xD #googlestreetview
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @Arnold Qin: Exactly! It was a trick question. She has all of your HDDs in the saddlebags of her bicycle. So, there goes all your porn. Thanks a lot, fire department, you ruined that woman's life, and my weekend! Nice job. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Arnold Qin Arnold Qin
    11/11/09

    @met2art: She was also listening to my iTouch, which has all my other por-I mean movies in it. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Not a hit and run...she is well away from the truck.

    She simply panicked as she saw the big truck, couldn't control herself and ended up on the ground.

    Gizmodo busting a fox news i see. #googlestreetview
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    Image of uncdomination uncdomination
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: You liberals always find out a way to cheap shot Fox News don't you? Shouldn't you be in Greenland with Al Gore to see all the Ice caps "melting"?
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    Image of Norbs Norbs
    11/11/09

    @uncdomination: Uhh wow you have respect for fox news?! #googlestreetview
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    Image of SirDrinksalot SirDrinksalot
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: Yea that person hasn't even entered the intersection yet and are at the same spot they were in the previous screen. It's like they just tipped over like one of those goats that freeze up when they're scared.

    I don't see any evidence that would indicate that any person on truck contact took place. #googlestreetview
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    Image of CheeseGamer CheeseGamer
    11/11/09

    @uncdomination: You conservatives always find a way to ruin your credibility, don't you? Shouldn't you be with our former VP "shooting" lawyers?

    I "love" "putting" verbs in quotes. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Andrew Pollack Andrew Pollack
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: Agreed. As someone who drives a fire truck, I can tell you that bike was not hit by one. Even a glancing tap with the front bumper would have bent the front wheel pretty much in half. Anything more serious and she'd be a grease spot. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    01:09 AM

    @SirDrinksalot: indeed sir. #googlestreetview
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    01:10 AM

    @CheeseGamer: LOL! #googlestreetview
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    Image of DeLarge DeLarge
    11/11/09

    In reply to A 16 Terabyte Drive in the Google Cloud, $4096 a Year
    Skydrive is 25Gb for free, am I missing some benefits for going to google for $5? #cloud
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    11/11/09

    In reply to The First Real Mac Google Chrome Beta Coming in December
    Been running the developer build. Almost no issues to speak of, and no crashes. Very pleased. #google
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    In reply to The First Real Mac Google Chrome Beta Coming in December
    If it's as good in OS X as it is in Windows, I'd download it posthaste. I've all but stopped using Firefox since I downloaded Chrome. Much much faster, smaller memory footprint, and much more stable. Though I do miss AdBlockPlus, XMarks, citation resource plug-ins and small things like that. Overall, Chrome handles things better than FF.

    When I get my hackintosh up and running, you can bet I'll be installing this. #google
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Did you say Bing? #wolframalphabing
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    In reply to A 16 Terabyte Drive in the Google Cloud, $4096 a Year
    When/if this becomes standard practice, I imagine that the practice of torrenting cloud-stored files will co-opt the term "Cloud Seeding." A torrential downpour, indeed. #cloud
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    Image of lankysob lankysob
    11/11/09

    @met2art: I'm impressed you were able to come up with that after 5pm. Good work, you can go home now. You've accomplished all you can today.

    - Of course, this all moot if you're not in EST. In which case, get your butt back to work. - #cloud
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    Image of Aetius Aetius
    11/11/09

    @met2art: "Does anyone need that much porn?" #cloud
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @Aetius: Well... "survival need," no. But, "warm & fuzzy security-blanket" need... well, yes. #cloud
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    Image of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Know what I want from Microsoft? An original idea. It seems like the more time goes on, the more companies like Apple and Google come out with neat products like iPods and Microsoft just kinda says
    "Wow, that's neat. Let's steal the idea, we'll call it zune".
    "Google's making money? Hey we should start a search engine"
    "OS 2, huh? Looks neat, we'll call it Windows" #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD: Brush up on your history a little. MS was in the search engine game before Google ever existed. (sources: [searchenginewatch.com] [en.wikipedia.org] [en.wikipedia.org] ). In fact, there were at least 16 other search engines that predated Google ( [en.wikipedia.org] ). So, one could argue that Google stole the idea from MS, amongst others following your logic.

    The first MP3 player was made by Eiger Labs and was called the MPMan (source: [reviews.cnet.com] [en.wikipedia.org] [boingboing.net] ). In fact, the market had several different MP3 players before iPod came along. Apple rarely innovates technology, they tend to wait and synthesize the best facets of different products together into one user friendly and attractive device and it is something they do very well.

    OS2 was co-developed by Microsoft and IBM ([en.wikipedia.org] ) and was built around MS-DOS, the DOS ( [en.wikipedia.org] ) system created by Gates and Microsoft. Granted, MS-DOS is preceded by Apple DOS by a year ( [en.wikipedia.org] ). The independent Windows OS was antecedent to Apple's OS, but the IBM/MS one preceded it.

    I could go on and on, but don't feel like it. The thing is, tech companies constantly "steal" from one another because they see what customers like or what are good ideas and attempt to utilize them. Call it stealing or failure to innovate if you want, but you'd be flat out wrong. Go troll somewhere else about MS. Do a little research before opening your mouth about something that you don't know about. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of tucker tucker
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    I use Bing. Oh wait. No I don't. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @fucker: Who's got two thumbs and doesn't care? This guy. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables
    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I get it... you purposely misspelled his name.... hahaha #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables: Who, me? I would never do something subtle and easy like that. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables
    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Well Played Sir... #wolframalphabing
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Personally, I think Wolfram Alpha is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps even greater.

    The ability to quickly whip up a query to answer some bizarre random question gives me a feeling of Godlike omniscience. It's almost like something out of Star Trek, where the computer was always solving complex problems for the crew and then I'd be watching this on TV wondering why they bothered with the useless meatbags at all, when the computer was obviously the smartest one there.

    But still, I have to wonder... does anybody other than me really use it? #wolframalphabing
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    Image of chuckbass chuckbass
    11/11/09

    @jepzilla: I use wolfram alpha a lot! I'm an engineering student, so I am commonly doing my hw in front of wolfram alpha.
    And I love having it come up with quick answers to other things. And it's a great tool to look at stocks and economic trends.
    It is honestly one of the greatest things on the internet and I think more people use it than you are aware - I am constantly catching classmates on it. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Never have I been more tempted to make a "yo dawg..." joke. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of PregoNation PregoNation
    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: omg. As in "Yo dawg...I like you...Yo Dawg...I like you too man. Let's get married" #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @PregoNation: More like, "yo dawg I heard you like search engines, so we put a search engine in your search engine so you could Bing while you Google" #wolframalphabing
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