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Google knows nothing, except where words are placed.

Wrong! Google knows more than you think.

For those too lazy to follow the link, type something like 4*5 in google and it will give you the result, or type 100 miles and it will show you how many kilometres that is.

Loud pipes safe lives. The reason those pipes (on motor bikes) are so loud is often because the other drivers on the road might not see you (on your bike) but hopefully they will hear you and watch out to not hit you.

To put it briefly, loud pipes do not save lives. It is a myth. Mostly, they just piss people off.

Loud pipes can kill you; "excessive noise may be fatiguing to riders, making them less able to enjoy riding and less able to exercise good riding skills." My major complaint is that they aren't dangerous enough to either refute the myth or get rid of the obnoxious assholes who believe it (or act as if they do) fast enough to make the roads quiet enough to live by.

I'm pretty happy I found that too. :) FYI, I just typed 'blender keyboard shortcuts' into google. First link. Heh

Chinese: Chinput
Japanese: Kinput2 You should find links to Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean Input Methods from those links, too!

Chinese: Chinput
Japanese: Kinput2 You should find links to Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean Input Methods from those links, too!

Did I say a salary of $200k?

No... I said "cost of $100-200k per employee (salary + rent + computer + etc...)"

That's salary + office rent + computer hardware + computer software + health benefits + taxes + stock plan + 401k / RRSP + relocation + training + desk + chair + office supplies + phone bill + internet cost + everything else.

I was using a rough employee cost of 2x a typical salary of $50-100k. That 2x comes from what I understand from management at a large company at which I worked. If you want a web link to some other references, here ya go:

2.2x salary for a (use the 1.25x * 1.75x figures)

How much does an employee really cost?

Dave

Interesting indeed.

Search on google for "cross platform toolkit" and note the second link - the XPToolkit from our friends at Mozilla. On that page what is the first text after the page title?

Vision: We make cross-platform user interfaces as easy to build and customize as web pages.

IMHO, Miguel isn't the only person who got scared - my bet is BillG and/or StevieB saw what Mozilla does and had a $3B coniption - XAML being it's end product. It's how Microsoft reacts every time something provides a hint of a credible threat to Windows dominance - destroy it before it destroys us.

I know that I would love a RAD tool (a la VisualBasic maybe, but with less suckage) to make XUL apps. I could then write-once-run-on-gecko with any of the quick and dirty development work I had to do, and the OS wouldn't matter one whit. (Hey, I can dream, can't I?)

Soko

Google cache of lycos.com.

The "reinvention" mentioned in the original posting seems to only apply to the US site, and other countries appear to be automatically redirected. So here's the link for anyone who can't see the site.

The sites are completely different, it isn't just the adults 18+ link.

Newsflash:
Having dial-up is a bottleneck.

Especially since I am writting little programs to automatically mirror pages slightly before they are slashdotted...

For those who want the link: @NETI

Unfortunately, it seems @NETI does not quite do real-time, but others, like netcraft do do realtime (although netcraft only measures one server.
Why doesn't someone just write a script to interpret netcraft results, using one of the many ip address locators?

A quick search for 'Linux' brings up the following #1 sponsored link:

Linux News
Why is Windows cheaper than Linux?
Get all the facts Now!
www.microsoft.ca/getthefacts

So can Linus sue now? Seriously, I hope the courts don't rule against Google. It's not like the nasty ads that were being placed over other ads on company websites, it's just a sponsored link.

I know google is a US based company, but if you want to register a .ca domain you have to be located in Canada... WTF? This isn't the US based site... Urrgh, this just makes me mad...

is that these links get extra attention.

For example, search for Kazaa Lite and look at the DMCA link at the bottom. The notice lists the URLs which they've had to remove.

Google's way of fighting the man?

i'm sure you could have done this: google

It is easy to substitute words. It does not make your argument.

Here is more Information.

It is easy to do a Google search. It does not make your argument. If you want to use data to support your viewpoint, do the work yourself to find it and cite it properly. Heck, the first hit on that search quotes different percentages than you did, and points out wage disparities between the tug operators and the deckhands they employ.

Without corporations there would be no jobs, unions, etc.

There would be no unions, that's probably true. No jobs? Excuse me? There are plenty of sole proprietorships and partnerships that are not incorporated and still employ people. There would be a whole lot more of them if corporations didn't give people significant tax breaks. These days, if you do *any* work for yourself, you're best off incorporating (even me with my ~$1000 a year freelance income... though I haven't gotten around to it yet).

Is incorporation good for business? You betcha. Is it good for individuals? If they're the ones incorporating, yeah... but otherwise, the reviews are mixed. Does it mean more jobs? Quite probably, but it says nothing about the quality of those jobs. But not all jobs come from corporations, and just because a lot of them do doesn't mean that there isn't something seriously messed about the way the corporate world works. In the meantime, we cobbled together a balancing force called unions.

Are you ready to reform the *whole* f'ed up system? Don't pretend that only the second half has a problem.

I prefer the Google cache.

It is easy to substitute words. It does not make your argument.

Here is more Information.

Neither is the best solution, but getting rid of one without getting rid of the other is a bad idea.

Without corporations there would be no jobs, unions, etc.

I have already tried the 3.5" floppy explosive.

However, it takes about 5 minutes to prepare, while I have 1,000s of these disks (and 10,000s of 5.25" disks).

These things are perfect for putting idle machines that are off. Someone turns the machine on, the disk spins, and the distinct odour with the smoke starts becoming apparent.

I only had about 20 floppy drives. I think I down to 2 or 3.

Google search

Dude ever heard of a search engine? this query searches their domain for interesting stuff which yeilds:
http //labs.8d.com/arm/
this is toolchain which is IMHO all you need.

Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing[2], but that's just reaching. *Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.

From the now-missing perl.com post by Tom Christiansen. It's in the Google cache still.

Knowing about GPL and actualy reading it is 2 different things.

site doing an overview of GPL

GPL license (not that i've read it)

Both google cache so we don't /. them

Knowing about GPL and actualy reading it is 2 different things.

site doing an overview of GPL

GPL license (not that i've read it)

Both google cache so we don't /. them

Or, another way: Bookmark "http://www.google.ca/search?q=%s" then just right click on it in bookmarks and add a keyword. I just used "g".

Now, to search google I go the address bar and type "g <query>". Simple.

OMG!! Yes, I want a fukcing Sr-90 in cell phones!!!

Look on the fucking periodic table. Sr-90 is almost chemically the same as calcium. So yeah, put it in my cell phone. Then your kinds will have it in their bones!!! I guess leukemia is a type of flu in your world.

Sr-90 is one of the *worst* contaminants. google Same thing for iodine-131

You already have to use steel that was forged before WWII to make high sensitivity radiation detectors. But that's not a problem, lets fuck up the planet (ie. us) so we can talk on the cell phone for 50 years!!!!!!

Use RTG in a very limited way for science, esp. for space probes where power is scarce. DO NOT USE IT IN A CELL PHONE!!!

Will the REAL "Year Of The Penguin" please stand up? Otherwise I'll be forced to conclude that this is just the 6th Year Of That Fucking Catchphrase The Everyone Thinks Is Clever And They're The First To Use It, Oh Please Shut Up, Shut Up Shut Up PLEASE

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22year+of+the+pengu in%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&m eta=

Just uninstall Norton (follow the steps here) and reinstall to get another year!

You mean something like this?

(face it, we're talking about a monopolist that was convicted of abuse of their monopoly)

Yeah.. Just too bad none of it was true.

Judging from your post, cubic, you seem to take everything on trust. That's bad.

You TRUST the moderators are always wise and good. I don't. I've seen enough bad mods to justify that belief. I'm sure you have as well. And yet you insult me for standing up for what I think is right. When I see a bad mod, I complain instead of letting the bad mod stand. If you don't complain over injustice, it will never be changed.

You TRUST that Apple and Microsoft haven't put a backdoor in their software. I don't. Why should I? IBM put a backdoor in their software AT THE REQUEST OF THE NSA. Yeah, that IBM. Big Blue. At the time a powerful monopoly unequalled in the world. Lotus being the most popular Office Suite at the time. And they caved. Think about it. You think it's IMPOSSIBLE that little 2% marketshare Apple would cave under that pressure? Even when the NSA "request" becomes a "demand"? My post didn't even say that MS and Apple definitely backdoored their software; I said they I can't prove they didn't. The *possibility* is there. For you to deny even the possibility shows that the problem is not mine, it's yours. You're not thinking rationally -- you're denying reality. The reality is that it is *certainly* possible, and judging from the current political climate in the USA, it may even be probable.

And why am I paranoid? I'm thinking of my own well-being. How is self-preservation a bad thing? If I'm paranoid, you're a naive trusting kid who hasn't got a clue as to how the world really works. If you actually *trust* the multinationals not to put code in their OSes like this, when every second app out there now is "spyware", you're a fool. To blindly reject even the possibility out of love and trust for a corporation is insane. If you haven't noticed that Apple isn't "thinking different" anymore, take a closer look. They've joined corporate America in a big way. Watch ThinkSecret, MacSurfer and other Mac news sites and study their business practices. It's not a bunch of hippies trying to "change the world" anymore.

I am perfectly willing to join you in saying "it's not even possible for OS X to be backdoored" THE SECOND YOU SHOW ME SOME PROOF. Until then, it IS a possibility, and no amount of well-designed MP3 software or hip ad campaigns can change that.

I do not know if the guy is guilty or not. A trial will tell us, in due time.

However, the media coverage of the whole thing sucks.

His father, Mahboob A. Khawaja, has been detained in Saudi Arabia, where he is a professor at some university. The media reports that the father wrote articles critical of the West's meddling with the Muslim World's affairs. He wrote a book called Muslims and the West.

How is that relevant to anything? Is it an attempt to tie genuine legitimate criticism to terrorism somehow?

I did some searching on the father, and found quite a few articles, most of it critical to the Arab rulers than anything else. Seems he places blame where it belongs, whether in the West or in the Arab world.

This reminds me of the terms "terrorism", "anti-Americanism", ...etc. all these are misused terms in these confusing times.

This whole thing about "guilt by association" got to stop.

And yet at the same time, Janet Jackson's boobie pops out and we all have a fucking heart attack. It's all fake, it's a fucking fake reaction that we are all mutually emulating. Other people seem offended, so by God, I should be offended too!

The thing is, nobody (or at least, hardly anybody) is really offended by it.

This is a very keen point. Further, witness recent "mass mourning" events all i could find about it at the moment). People are being seduced by the mass media into connecting in a purley INDUCED emotional manner to the deaths of celebritis (and others). The masses have absolutely lost touch with what is relevant and real to them as individuals, they have instead accepted these induced emotional events as real -- replacing their own. Life has become too complicated, the media provides more information in a day than most can digest in a month and people have given up on trying to rationalize it all, instead, they have surrendered themselves to it.

The next time some kid is kidnapped watch the reaction in people, the media and in these 'public mourning events'. It is terrible i know, but is it REALLY a concern we should all be concerned with? Violence and tragedy is as old as time, its not going anywhere, why are we seeming to loose the ability to rationalize?

Personally, i have choose to ignore *all* the 'personal tragedy' bs that is blasted out network news (and on internet, watercooler-chat, newspapers, etc etc).

As you said, this mass hysteria is truly dangerous. Personally, i think the next kook-with-a-back-pack bomb-in-a-subway is going to send the USA into a spiral of hysteria that ends up in WWIII (after you trash your civil liberties, crown bush king, and deport/intern/imprison anyone who looks like The Enemy(TM))

Here's the Google cache

They want to... prevent the copying of music? Why on earth would you do that? It's perfectly legal.

I bet you could figure it out if you tried

When it comes to acronyms, GIYF

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S

Please correct the google news link. I can't get to the site...

Oddly enough, I couldn't find any records of an incorporation under Ideaflood Inc, but I'm not sure how good the sites I was checking are. I wanted to get a list of their directors. (Gee, maybe a dodgy Nevada corporation, what a shock!)

Ah, bonus! Looks what's running in near them:

66.28.153.9 server9.ideaflood.com
66.28.153.10 server10.ideaflood.com
66.28.153.11 server11.purefuck.com
66.28.153.12 server12.ideaflood.com
66.28.153.13 server13.sexmuseum.com
66.28.153.14 server14.ideaflood.com
66.28.153.15 server15.ideaflood.com

total plane crashes: 4
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crashes on water: 0
crashes on land: 4
black boxes recoverd: zero

I searched for Roxio and the pic is a box from Nero.

I know it was taken from one of the articles which talks about both... but still....

I really don't think that Google can get /.'ed can it?

Well just in case, here is the cache for it.

I wish Google would fix their searching of mailing lists. I would love to see duplicates filtered, messages ordered by date, and indexing by subject.

what they need is a new section 'google mailing lists', which functions similarly to google groups, you can search newsgroup items, view the whole thread in a nested format, etc

although they would probably need to archive the mailing lists from various sources, could take quite a bit of work

Have you noticed the calculator ? Quite cool !

Here's the Google cache of the article.

Stylesheet? That's funny, when I looked at the source to this query, there was no style sheet. All the CSS information was inline in either the HEAD or at the beginning of the BODY.

also you are dumb because you are confusing the "face" of fox news, with what actually goes on there. Take for example the "investigative reporters" hired by fox to do a report on a steroid that is added to all american milk products. this steroid (rBGH i think it was called) has been proven to cause cancer and make people more resistant to antibiotics. When they found this out, fox fired them as it was too controversial for their pharmacutical industry (monstanto) backed news. LINK

i think its safe to say that if you have to go to so much trouble to promote yourself as hard hitting, indept and 'fair and balanced', your probably lacking in it.

as for news, all amerkian news is pretty much the same. i would suggest the bbc, or cbc for a bit more balanced reporting. and if you dont want to listen to me, i have found this conservative article lambasting them for doing what i would consider a more societally correct, good job.

"A BBC-type public broadcaster is responsible only to Parliament. Unlike its counterparts in most continental European countries, public broadcasters in the British or Canadian tradition report to no ministry of culture or information. British governments, democratically elected as they may be, can't tell the BBC what to do. If the BBC wants to engage in partisan politics, if it feels like opposing, discrediting, or undermining the government, it's in a good position to do so. Although a government might control the BBC's purse-strings through Parliament, and may give the board of governors some headaches at licence renewal time, no cabinet minister can give the BBC directives about daily operations, or about what it should put on the air, and how."

also you are dumb because you are confusing the "face" of fox news, with what actually goes on there. Take for example the "investigative reporters" hired by fox to do a report on a steroid that is added to all american milk products. this steroid (rBGH i think it was called) has been proven to cause cancer and make people more resistant to antibiotics. When they found this out, fox fired them as it was too controversial for their pharmacutical industry (monstanto) backed news. LINK

i think its safe to say that if you have to go to so much trouble to promote yourself as hard hitting, indept and 'fair and balanced', your probably lacking in it.

as for news, all amerkian news is pretty much the same. i would suggest the bbc, or cbc for a bit more balanced reporting. and if you dont want to listen to me, i have found this conservative article lambasting them for doing what i would consider a more societally correct, good job.

"A BBC-type public broadcaster is responsible only to Parliament. Unlike its counterparts in most continental European countries, public broadcasters in the British or Canadian tradition report to no ministry of culture or information. British governments, democratically elected as they may be, can't tell the BBC what to do. If the BBC wants to engage in partisan politics, if it feels like opposing, discrediting, or undermining the government, it's in a good position to do so. Although a government might control the BBC's purse-strings through Parliament, and may give the board of governors some headaches at licence renewal time, no cabinet minister can give the BBC directives about daily operations, or about what it should put on the air, and how."

okay, how about the withdrawal from the anti ballistic missile treaty. the u.s. withdrew from that. yes, i have a source

and then of course there's the whole softwood lumber dispute. even with the wto ruling in canada's favour, the eventual resolution included quotas set by the us... and even that lame settlement didn't last more than a year. the ustr pressured the wto on the issue until wto caved and reversed the ruling! yes, i have a source for this too.

so. bottom line: the us likes to act unilaterally and wto doesn't have the gumption or strength to stop them. if the wto will cave to the ustr against canada, what chance does antigua have?

oh yeah. i work in the online lottery industry. we're an american company... but our site runs in europe.

• Google - 199 hits
• MSN - 121 hits
• Yahoo - 304 hits

"Computer...Take me to the pr0n!!"

And, since pr0n is not an English word, you'll get this.

Yep, too late--some damned fool already posted about that trick to news.admin.net-abuse.email back in May of 2001. D'OH! :^)

Once more with the "preview" button.

"tips in the homepage would be a nice start,"

Please see this, it shows you how to "Google" more effectively.