Has Google Redefined Beta? 292
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CmdrTaco
from the finished-when-it's-finished dept.
from the finished-when-it's-finished dept.
netbuzz writes "Someone finally took the time to do a count of all the Google apps marked 'beta.' And with fully 45% of its products carrying that familiar tag — including 4-year-old Gmail — Google says there's an explanation: Beta doesn't mean to them what it has long meant to the rest of the tech community. 'We believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web,' says a company spokesman."
I prefer the old definitions: (Score:5, Funny)
Alpha: it doesn't work.
Beta: it still doesn't work.
Perhaps they should be more wary.... (Score:4, Funny)
I seem to recall that Stavro Muller intentionally added the Beta label to one of his own restaurants, with catastrophic results.
Re:Perhaps they should be more wary.... (Score:3, Funny)
Mr T says: I ain't eatin no beta-carotene, sucka!
Re:I prefer the old definitions: (Score:5, Funny)
And to continue on that
Release Candidate: It might work, but it probably won't
Gold: It still doesn't work, but users are great bugtester
SP1: Still not done, has some bugs left and misses some funtionality
SP2: This one might actually be done, try at your own risk though
Re:I prefer the old definitions: (Score:5, Funny)
Re Gmail being beta, does this mean when it's 'finished' it will be Alpha mail?
Re:I prefer the old definitions: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Has Google Redefined Beta?" (Score:5, Funny)
Still in Beta?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I prefer the old definitions: (Score:5, Funny)
Software Development Lifecycle
Alpha- short for "It's alpha-lly crap"
Beta - short for "It's still alpha-ally crap, but it's beta than it was"
Release - short for "it still release-tinks, but we've gotta publish"
Gold - Short for "it's gold-arn awful, but at least it's out the door"
Google is Following in Humpty Dumpty's Footsteps (Score:5, Funny)
When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
--- Humpty Dumpty
as if anyone is in a position to argue? (Score:5, Funny)
google could redefine a cucumber as a small nocturnal mammal, and the whole world would fall in line. google search is all of our collective recall. it's the 800 pound gorilla of the web. it can make any word mean anything they want it to
call it a "google mind trick"
World: Let us see Gmail move out of beta.
Google: [with a small tweak of the spider] You don't need to see Gmail move out of beta.
World: We don't need to Gmail move out of beta.
Google: Beta does not have the meaning you think it has.
World: Beta does not have the meaning I think it has.
Google: You believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web.
World: I believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web.
Gmail: Move along.
World: Move along... move along.
Yes... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:5, Funny)
Well for a company that can't spell Googol [wikipedia.org] correctly, I'm not surprised they would not be using the word Beta correctly. We're just lucky they haven't started spelling it Baitah, Beata, or Bayta.
Jonah HEX
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:2, Funny)
On the contrary, the birth date you supplied quite definitively indicates that Google is a young company. ;)
It's only been around for 3 weeks after all...
Problem solved! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Capitalism is dying (Score:2, Funny)
"Marxism has now confirmed: Capitalism is dying"
You woulda got modded funny if you left it at that...well, at least by me...
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:5, Funny)
There, fixed it for you.
See, you replaced a word, while google would've changed the definition :-)
They said it a few years back (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:1, Funny)
A rose named "anal discharge" would not be so appealling. A child named "Vagina Slime" would not be so nice.
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:1, Funny)
Wait for what? The acquisition of wife/girlfriend/SO or of the BJ?
Re:That's just plain stupid (Score:1, Funny)
It's just how life works. If you're important enough you can do whatever you want.
You misunderstand the parent.
You're simply not THAT important