Posted by: drakino
Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 02:22
I...have no freaking clue what to think...
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 14:02
Posted by: canuckInOR
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 15:50
Originally Posted By: tfabris
That's funny. I read the announcement before seeing this tweet, and the first thing I thought was that it's a restructuring for accounting purposes.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 17:56
Posted by: drakino
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 19:26
Make sure to check out the hidden link in this sentence on http://abc.xyz, period.
Originally Posted By: Alphabet
Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort.
Posted by: drakino
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 11/08/2015 21:31
I'm watching the outcome of this with guarded enthusiasm. Nest being spun back out as it's own company under Alphabet is good to me. I disliked their integration into a business who's primary focus is advertising.
There is likely many reasons this was done, and a good chance part of it is shady business reasons. One that I haven't seen discussed much is the change in liability. I think Google learned some hard lessons when they bought Motorola for the patents. Had the patent lawsuits all went in favor of those fighting Google, it could have put far more then Android at risk.
There is still a large liability target with Google today, but it's at least aligned with all the business units focused on ads. Nest's liability if someone dies from a faulty Protect, or the liability with the self driving cars is now isolated to those businesses. At least I believe so, but I'm not fully up to speed on the laws in this regard with the type of reorganization they are doing.
There is likely many reasons this was done, and a good chance part of it is shady business reasons. One that I haven't seen discussed much is the change in liability. I think Google learned some hard lessons when they bought Motorola for the patents. Had the patent lawsuits all went in favor of those fighting Google, it could have put far more then Android at risk.
There is still a large liability target with Google today, but it's at least aligned with all the business units focused on ads. Nest's liability if someone dies from a faulty Protect, or the liability with the self driving cars is now isolated to those businesses. At least I believe so, but I'm not fully up to speed on the laws in this regard with the type of reorganization they are doing.
Posted by: mlord
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 12/08/2015 09:43
Originally Posted By: drakino
Make sure to check out the hidden link in this sentence on http://abc.xyz, period.
Originally Posted By: Alphabet
Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort.
I moused over the entire sentence, but no link appeared.
Posted by: andy
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 12/08/2015 13:39
That is because they've used CSS to change the cursor to be the text caret. The link is on the full stop after "our drone delivery effort".
Use the source Luke...
Use the source Luke...
Posted by: elperepat
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 12/08/2015 13:42
They use CSS to obfuscate the link.
In firefox, by hovering on the period (.) at the end of the sentence, a url appears where the status bar used to be. It's a link even though not shown as clickable. You can take a look at the page source too (Ctrl-U).
[edit]Beaten to it...[/edit]
In firefox, by hovering on the period (.) at the end of the sentence, a url appears where the status bar used to be. It's a link even though not shown as clickable. You can take a look at the page source too (Ctrl-U).
[edit]Beaten to it...[/edit]
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 12/08/2015 14:53
Originally Posted By: andy
That is because they've used CSS to change the cursor to be the text caret
Okay, that right there, that, that is evil.
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Google uses it's letters to make Alphabet - 24/08/2015 21:16
Larry Page has proclaimed himself the Phoenix King!
...sometimes you have to make jokes just for yourself. Any other Avatar fans here? Bruno would get it...
...sometimes you have to make jokes just for yourself. Any other Avatar fans here? Bruno would get it...