Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Page
Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they bought Youtube? I thought I was the only one!

Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-22 Thread jrodman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:16:55PM +1030, Bill Page wrote: Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they bought Youtube? I thought I was the only one! I too am pissed about that. I'm also pissed that *anyone* gave those youtube yahoos any money at all. There are

Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-22 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-01-21, at 23:59, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: I suppose this is now business hate. Business hate? HP! Just about every place I can think of where HP and Compaq had competing products, they dumped the good one and kept the bad one. And it wasn't just that they kept HP's

flexcar.com

2008-01-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
! Except, of course, they'd all be saying PIN number. Now that we finally log in, half the links are broken. They're all http://http//flexcar.com/... Good job on your URL rewriter, guys! Every other click dumps me onto http.com which I'm sure they love. We were here to reserve a car, so let's

Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-21 Thread John Sinteur
On Jan 21, 2008, at 0:29, Michael G Schwern wrote: Fortunately Flexcar has been bought out by Zipcar. Zipcar's system still has the neighborhood / zip code thinking, but at least they use Google Maps so I can bypass all that. Hopefully they'll wisely trash the Flexcar site. They'll

Re: flexcar.com

2008-01-21 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-01-21, at 02:01, John Sinteur wrote: On Jan 21, 2008, at 0:29, Michael G Schwern wrote: Fortunately Flexcar has been bought out by Zipcar. Zipcar's system still has the neighborhood / zip code thinking, but at least they use Google Maps so I can bypass all that. Hopefully they'll

Google Video (was Re: flexcar.com)

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Rothenberg
On 21/01/08 09:15 Peter da Silva wrote: Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they bought Youtube? No. YouTube worked better than Google Video. I am pissed that Google Video only searches YouTube, and not the myriad other video sites. But that probably is outside

Re: Google Video (was Re: flexcar.com)

2008-01-21 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-01-21, at 03:27, Robert Rothenberg wrote: No. YouTube worked better than Google Video. o_O Google Video didn't force everything to be wrapped in an infinitely hateful flash player. If the original format was something that could be played in a common plugin, it just handed that

Re: Google Video (was Re: flexcar.com)

2008-01-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2008-01-21 10:55]: Google Video didn't force everything to be wrapped in an infinitely hateful flash player. If the original format was something that could be played in a common plugin, it just handed that out. Actually the way I remember it, in-browser

Re: Google Video (was Re: flexcar.com)

2008-01-21 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-01-21, at 08:34, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Actually the way I remember it, in-browser replay always used the Flash player. However, you could download almost everything, and the download was always provided in whatever format the original video was in. Ah, right. I misremembered,

Re: Google Video (was Re: flexcar.com)

2008-01-21 Thread Yoz Grahame
On Jan 21, 2008 1:27 AM, Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com wrote: I am pissed that Google Video only searches YouTube, and not the myriad other video sites. But that probably is outside the scope of software hate. It's outside the scope of any hate at all, I'm afraid...