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The Yahoo Maps for China don't look very transformed.

http://maps.yahoo.com/#lat=39.8908713496569&lon=116.4246...

(This isn't a vote for Yahoo Maps, just an observation)

This is not a problem with using a GPS, the problem is the shift from using different mapping technologies.

Trying to get satellite and the map portions to line up is very difficult. Trying to do it on a global scale with data from multiple sources... you get the idea.

Now please get back to China bashing and don't let the facts get in the way of your political/religious feelings. Remember to include lots anecdotal evidence and use the word red. And as always bring up other countries that seem scary on fox news.

Most likely paid PR. Journalists are lazy and they already written articles.

Maybe the app engine team just chose the one they had more experience in hacking.

>The backend shouldn't be more than about 150 hours of true programming...

Someone who can't program knows how many hours it takes.

I can't wait for opportunity to do half the work and get 3-5%, where do I sigh up?

US immigration is just like a Monty Python sketch and contains some Yes/No questions, such as;

Have you ever committed Genocide?

Are you coming to the United States to practice Polygamy?

Are you coming to the United States to use or deal in illegal Drugs?

Have you ever been a part of a Terrorist organization?

Are you planning to overthrow the US government?

US immigration policy brings everyone down except maybe those from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

The email I received was titled "Google App Engine Leaving Preview". And it states "We plan to roll this out in the second half of September...."

The scariest part of looking at my billing history is "Frontend Instance Hour costs reflect a 50% price reduction active until November 20th, 2011"

Maybe Argentina should do what China does and block anything that resolves to ghs.google.com

By blocking ghs.google.com the blocking country won't be subject to any write ups on an official google blog.

Steal a loaf of bread and get sent to Australia...

Even going to Best Buy to try a unit does next to nothing. Pretty much everything that they sell has a flat battery, is stuck on a screen or suffering some other issue.

Except of course for the Apple display. All working. All looking good. All the time.

A lot of your points seem to cover international issues/action.

The US needs to come to the realization that it is part of the world economy and not the ruler/leader.

A large percentage of the US economy was damaged in the events that occurred after September 2001. Trying to to do business, travel or get workers to the US requires so much paperwork that a lot of business has simply gone elsewhere. Even trying to do financial trade in the US these days ends up with so much taxes or the threat of your money being taken as it may be linked to some terrorist organization.

And your health insurance.... well I like collecting dividends. If you like I could go into the oil industry, I will say thank you to the American tax payer for electing to go to war and making me some money.

The US has managed to dig itself into a great big hole and gave people like me money. Congratulations on your sinking economy and thank you.

So keep watching that propaganda you call Fox News :)

For $25 in AWS credit for everyone that enters, I'll have to enter my start-up. All it does it write "Hello World!" on the screen.

:)

Expand I will.

>I doubt that there are many arbitration companies siding with someone just to get repeat business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Leigh_Jones

ctrl-F arbitration

Arbitration can be a bitch.

The Arbitration company has a tendency to rule in favor of whoever is going to bring them the most repeat business.

> we get to run background checks and see if someone's been hanging out in Pakistan Frontier Provinces or Yemen lately.

You are overestimating the competence of the US government.

> If someone looks sketchy, we boot them out.

So dress nice and talk a lot of crap and they let you in.

>CBPs make wrong decisions sometimes. This wasn't one of those times.

Yay for security theater. I am glad someone feels safer.

>Most people would still use and pay for the subway, even it were privatized.

Given that nearly all the public transport for large cities is provided at a loss, I wonder if people would pay? History suggests not.

I have no idea if the rent-a-bikes are needed by consumers or not. The article doesn't seem to quote any studies by transport planners or the like. It is written by a company that provides energy/oil information, I wouldn't expect them to write an article about the problems of cars anytime soon.

Lets play spot the difference.

From the article; "Her goal is not to sell the service to consumers, but rather to the government." And now we change two words; "Her goal is not to sell the service to consumers, but rather to venture capitalists."

The entire argument is flawed, they are selling to a customer. Does it matter who the customer is?

Why does the government subsidize public transport in large cities?

From the Article; "In the case of Alta Bicycle Share, my life would be better without its existence." Try swapping "Alta Bicycle Share" with "New York Subway".

I certainly hope Casey Research (the article writer) wasn't subsidized by the oil or car industry to write this piece of garbage.

This is one of the dumbest things Google has done.

If Google really wants to get rid of 90 percent of spammy sites all they need to do is block any website that is registered with Godaddy.

I am sure Cisco has helped many countries build its police state.

There is plenty of good material on where to start with programming. Most of the links other people have provided here are very good.

A fairly good resource is Google Code University; http://code.google.com/edu/

In particular you may want to start with Python basics; http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...

I am just as confused as before.

I feel like a rant.

Editors: The best editor/editing environment of the bunch is the Microsoft offering of visual studio. The biggest problem is that it is only well suited for Microsoft products. There are a few others and there is eclipse that some people seem to worship but is clunky hog of a thing that is nowhere as smooth as Visual Studio. A lot of people still use fairly basic text editors.

Standards: At first there was Netscape it was good. Then IE came along and it was good and Netscape was a garbage. Then Firefox came along and it didn't crash as much as IE. Then Chrome came along and IE was crap. While I like the way Chrome has done so much, I really hope Google doesn't do too much to dominate the browser market. Competition is needed. Competition was needed when Microsoft was winning the browser wars. The actions that Google has taken of late seem to not much different from the bullying Microsoft employed all those many moons ago.

Javascript: The things you can do with Javascript are fantastic. The language of javascript is a dogs breakfast. Instead of pushing the language forward and making it more integrated with the browser, add-ons such as jquery have been created. Having one dominant language (that was set by Netscape) makes programming for the web a sometimes painful experience. Using Javascript and trying to make it work with every browser can get ugly. There is room for new language or two in the browser.

I am very happy to be moving on from the dominance of IE6 but I am cautious of what the future holds.

You forgot: The CEO has a hot secretary and his marriage is having problems.

David Clemens (the author of the article) should read the text books presented in American high schools.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

I am getting "Page does not exist"

Hipmunk only shows the flights that have tickets to sell through their partners.

Google has a lot more in terms of schedules.

Much easier to start again and register with a non US based domain registrar.

The only winners of any lawsuits will be the lawyers.

The money is in the presentation of the data. There is still plenty of money in the software.

Simply because ThePirateBay uses a domain register that is not located in US.

Most confiscated domains have registered with GoDaddy.

Looks like the lawyer Stephen Preziosi will make some money out of this.

The only reason a case like this would exist would be to make negative headlines in China.