i love the absolute shit of gmail, and im in this situation where i am willing to pay for it to not bother me to with g+ youtube.
I do not want to go back to thunderbird but gmail is creeping me more and more. The best part is i recommended it to all my friends and stood on googles side on more then one occasion.
Is there a space for a startup that will make a gmail alternative. There is toons of saas startups but none in this space.
Maybe I'll find some nice command line email client that I can get to work on different OSes/cross platform. That's the main head scratcher for now, it was too easy to forget just how well gmail as a web app works on any given system. Friends have offered me money to set up an email service for them, they'd trust me before google. It's not sufficient motivation for me. At least they know what they signed up for.
At the moment I don't mind using google's infrastructure, I have had an overhanging inclination to get away from their services since Buzz happened. Convenience prevailed! Even without the new auto signup/login, they already have my IP indexed usage stats which could be joined on my gmail logged in IP address/cookie, but to have it out in the open like this probably allows third parties to go looking for it. This new development is linking your real name with what you consume on youtube. I have no interest in giving up that info so easily.
there is a lot of this type of "mistakes"
if i would let my imagination to take over i could say they do it on purpose and say it is mistake only if they get caught.
Do you believe most of the world is honorless? If so, then no citation will convince otherwise.
On the other hand, if you believe most people are fundamentally "good" (or at least "mostly not evil"), as I do, then no citation is necessary.
Almost everyone of the thousands of people I've interacted with in the tech/programming field are good people.
Of course, there are plenty of horror stories in relation to the business side of things. It's certainly possible most of them are mostly evil; I have no clue.
You may have meant to talk about humans in general, but the context here is Microsoft. Your claim that Microsoft has very rarely acted against the interests of users on purpose is in need of supporting evidence, as the general sentiment on this social news site is that this is not the case.
To your question: Steve Mann has some interesting thoughts about how being a part of bureaucracy makes it easy to do evil. This is not a new idea: any discussion of collaboration in WW2 Europe will bring up similar themes. Do you think humans who are acting at the behest of an impersonal corporation are intrinsically good in that context?
Oddly enough, I'm also getting google.ca as my second result and I'm in the UK. All my results are actually identical to those shown on the linked image, even when I sign out.
another firefox since early beta user here.
i do not remember the number of machines i installed firefox on to, but i really like that there is competition now and every version gets faster and better.
Another Netscape Navigator, err before that NSCA Mosaic user here, and yes we walked to school uphill both ways.
I love firefox but have suffered with the memory issues for years. Please free memory when I close tabs, or at least add a flush button so I can reclaim the 500mb it balloons to in a day or two of heavy usage.
Current Aurora builds (which will eventually become Firefox 6) have an improved about:memory page, which includes buttons that make Firefox run the garbage collector:
In my experience, hitting the GC button rarely makes any detectable improvement. Right at this very moment my Firefox instance is using about 900MB of memory; hitting all three buttons in a row (garbage-collection, cycle-collection, "minimize memory usage") brings the number down to 892MB, ~750MB of which is apparently allocated to "heap-unclassified" and the JavaScript "gc-heap".
Work on reducing Firefox's memory footprint is ongoing; the most recent effort I know of is MemShrink:
It actually does not matter if i do not use facebook. Why? , because not using facebook affects me anyway. That is the reason why arguments like your do not have any value for me.
you are right. i loved last.fm and was gladlly paying my month subscription. Now that they are removing useful functionality im not standing behind that company.
Is there a space for a startup that will make a gmail alternative. There is toons of saas startups but none in this space.