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Google's Guide to the Galaxy
Where is the Google map of the Universe? I'd like to go to the "Restaurant at the end of the Universe".
Is the answer to life, the universe and everything close enough?
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Re:how about 16 cores?
Nope, I'm pretty sure 8 Opterons would be more than 1u
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Re:Google Earth tourism
The Register had a fun black helicopters competition - looking for covert military stuff with Google Earth. They've had plenty of weird Google Earth things featured, including an incredible, um, giant profanity. Wahey.
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Re:Scrolling in the search window...
Ah, I found how to get all the thumbnails for images - just thought the front page one was it. Silly me! It's very slow though...
Been having a look at finding a solution for a problem I had a while back with udev not being happy with my nvidia card. Look at the differences in these results and tell me which is more useful: Live - Google -
Get a Bicycle Trailer
Bicycle Trailers. Or be like me and rig up a large folding box so it can be attached to your bike. On the rare occasions when you need something too big for one of these, such as furniture, pay the shop to deliver - the cost of this is insignificant compared to the savings from not running a car.
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Re:Ah, the sweet sweet sound...
You make a good point.
However, I suspect that some of the things the EU is doing are due to pressure from the US government (things like biometric passports, for instance).
But this doesn't apply to everything, and the current UK government, in particular, seems to have a paranoia about recording everything its citizens do - as well as creating over 600 new criminal offences (almost 100 new ones per year). Mr. Blair seems a little overly keen on telling other people what to do - even by the normal standards of politicians. -
Abstraction filtration comparison
If your going to go down that road do some reading up on Abstraction filtration comparison first, then throw a little reverse engineering into the search to get some more specific info.
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Abstraction filtration comparison
If your going to go down that road do some reading up on Abstraction filtration comparison first, then throw a little reverse engineering into the search to get some more specific info.
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Re:English to American translation
errr, sorry to pee on your bonfire there, but
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Springfi eld,+West+Midlands,+B13&ll=52.446175,-1.857891&spn =0.027831,0.177498
and google will show you 3 more springfields in the uk (and I know of at least a couple more that aren't suberbs of cities!!) -
East of Ealing
Actually, Robert Rankin proposed something rather similar in his (bizzare and humorus) book East of Ealing. It was written and is set before the days of RFID tags, and features barcodes instead. Like in many of his stories, the End of the World is prevented by the heros. Froogle link
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Linux Vs Windows search results
Ironic search results: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=linux+vs+w
i ndows The first few results are quite unbiased.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux+vs+wind ows The first few results clearly favour Windows.
If Microsoft want their search to be more popular their results have to be unbiased to be taken seriously.
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What's the problem?
Searching for "party poker" malware; "party poker" trojan; "party poker" adware (to quote your comment) returns lots of good links on the first page, with no "site praising or advertising Party Poker". The only advert that I get is one for "Trojan Adware".
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Good to see the change in the installer......I haven't used Mandrake or whatever they're calling it now. I can't speak to its reliability...
But you are prepared to say
None of which detracts from portage, which has the benefit that they don't freeze things so you can upgrade when you want.
You really haven't addressed the issue here, which was that you have stated:-
In fact, if you take the problem you had unmasking fam to upgrade KDE, and do a quick Google, you get these unscientific results:-
Number of results for "kde upgrade problem" in the following distributions...
- Kubuntu - 259,000
- Gentoo - 430,000
- Mandriva - 709,000
- Ubuntu - 804,000
- Suse - 845,000
- Debian - 1,320,000
Read into the results what you will, but the number of issues with Gentoo doesn't seem to be any worse than the others, certainly not much higher.
Good luck with your current OS.
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Re:Sigh. Another one.
'It looks to me that if I link to any library, my code is now a derivative.'
Your work is only a derived work if you include anything that can be copyrighted (interfaces cannot be copyrighted!), so a statically linked binary will include the copyrighted library so the work is derived, a dynamically linked binary contants no copyrightable part of the library it was linked against (innlines in the headers are copyrightable so watch out) and isn't a derived work.
From the GPL:
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law : that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it , either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
It has been argued that the GPL cannot prevent dynamic linking, e.g. I linked against ATI's opengl implementation and then used MESA when I ran the application since the GPL cannot infect ATI's opengl then how can it infect my application? or something to that effect...
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Full quote please.You only gave the first half of the quote - taking Steve out of context and making it appear that the pouches are over priced.
"iPod leather cases. We've been working on these for a while. We're gonna sell these for $99, they go on sale in mid March."
Steve pauses. The crowd hushes, waiting expentantly.
The huge screen behind Steve is slowly brightening. Scenes from March of the Penguins are playing."Thats right, genuine penguin leather"
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BCSII has a Linux-based
Border Collie Systems produces a Linux-based IP camera DVR system. It uses Apache Tomcat to power a web-based interface. Client-side Javascript is used to display up to 4 cameras on a single web page. My father is in the security business and has installed a few of these for some colleges. So far they have performed quite well. Check them out.
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Re:Vapor-Infiltration
Oooooh, me likey!
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Re:Vapor-Infiltration
We won't see this happening for a long time, if at all.
You see, its all in a gamers best interests to relax and have fun, if you rush anything you might injure yourself.
I did notice whilst finding out about all this that lots of couch gamers get RSI, this is mainly due to trying to use their desktop keyboard and mouse whilst reclining in the easychair.
Did you know you can stop this instantly with just a simple addition?
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Re:not surprised..
Yes it is a tautology.
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Re:searching is not illegal
Exactly - Im still waiting for a modification to bittorrent that utilises googles filetype feature.
eg
narnia filetype:torrent
I'd like to see them start shutting down major search engines. It would be nice if we could harness their power in such a way that we dont even need these sites any more. It would be just fine if you could just use a search engine such as google as a definitive search rather than going through your 5 or 6 favorite torrent sites to find that elusive file. That seems like the way forward to me. Whichever way , it seems to me that bittorrent's weak point is the requirement for these sites in the first place.
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Re:Alternative: fusion
i've just watched a documentary (bbc's horizon) about 'Global Dimming'. the theory is that the more ash & soot thats released into the atmosphere, the more clouds we get & those clouds are more reflective than normal ones. so these extra reflective clouds actually reflect more solar radiation back out into space. multiple experiments conducted independly confirm that we get less sunlight than we used to. the only reason its not colder than it used to be is because of global warming.
Theres a transcript of the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizo
n /dimming_trans.shtmlYou can probably find more information on google too: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22global%20dimm
i ng%22so increasing global warming wont achieve your aim, at least not if the co2 also contains other products of combustion, like ash & soot.
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Re:What other War Footage ..
I say you should post it. I expect that some will use it for perverted entertainment or humour. But I suspect many more people in the US just don't have much idea what is really happening out there. People can't form valid opinions with nothing to form them from.
I can't off any videos (for which I'm thankful), but if you want good factual reporting from non "embedded" reporters, I can recommend the Indpendent. If you google through their site for Iraq or Robert Fisk (their correspondent), you'll find plenty. Here.
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Re:nah...
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Nice free advertising
Nice free advertising on Slashdot. Any chance of equal exposure for some competing sources?
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Meanwhile, on the Greek island of CreteArcheologists working in Aptera, a walled fortress city on the island of Crete, have recently announced the discovery of a very unusual, and very intact, tomb just outside the city. I visited Crete last year and took some pictures at the site - some pretty amazing detail. Then there's the hitchhiker who found and returned a 6500 y.o. gold pendant to the Greek authorities recently, she wanted no reward, and preferred to remain anonymous...
I couldnt think of anything funny to say about this new wall, so I figured I'd post something serious.
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Re:For those who care
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Re:[*dons flame retardant gear*]
If only!
The problem is that without short-term subsidies for alternative energy, the prices of necessary goods will rise before they begin to fall. And alternative energy sources are far too expensive for anybody to afford them: if petrol has to get that expensive first, before alternative fuels become cheaper, then we're shafted. We're seeing this happening already; petrol actually hit a pound {=US$1.74, according to Google} in parts of the UK for awhile last year, though it's back down to about 90.2p {=US$1.57} UK average {source}. This will cause problems. People have to travel to work; for many, increased fuel prices will mean that more of the working day is spent just offsetting the cost of transport there and back, and less money is available for other essentials such as food, clothing and household bills {which will also be more expensive}. For those already on the breadline {and I should know -- I've been there myself}, this may be too much; they will be forced to quit jobs they can't afford to travel to, and they won't even be able to sell their cars -- who is going to want to buy a bottomless pit just to throw money into it?
Now, this situation has been building up gradually, over the years. The Government are not without fault for treating the motorist as a cash cow to be milked whenever they feel like it; fuel tax {which everyone pays; even non-motorists are paying it indirectly through public transport and delivery costs} has been used as a major source of revenue which should have been coming from higher-rate income tax {"from each according to their ability" and all that}. The law begins from the standpoint that car ownership is a luxury and car owners are the minority; but the practical reality of the situation in Britain today is that, outside of London, car ownership is a necessity: non-car-ownership is, to all intents and purposes, a disability. People are forced to commute, sometimes over obscene distances, just because jobs are so scarce and moving house is so expensive.
Capitalism does not work, because it discriminates against the poor in favour of the rich. Imagine a poker table where one player has more chips than the others put together; now that player can be fairly sure of winning all the chips, almost irrespective of what cards are dealt. If you don't play, you can't lose -- but you can't win either. With so many at the table, it's essential to have good cards to open. With so few chips in front of each player, the only way anyone has a chance to win is by going all-in -- at which point our high-roller's losses are limited, even if their cards are only mediocre, and if they're good cards then somebody will be leaving the table. -
Re:Why, back in my day!
Back in my day, the best I could get was 2.84 bytes/sec.
Fortunately it was very scalable - it all depended on how much pocket money I had left that month.
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Re:Picture is worth 1k words
Thanks, but we've all seen Google China's tiananmen search vs The US version
However it's interesting to note that something censored in the US is censored all over the world
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Re:How would this backdoor work?It will probablly just involve adding 'admin=true' to the URL when in 'My Computer'.
It's amazing how many other people do -
Re:General taxation
Possibly the wost thought out comment I've read today...
Yeah well I don't use a TV at the moment and I'm quite happy not having to pay the BBC for a service I don't use.
I don't have a car, I don't have children, I'm in good health but I pay for roads, schools and hospitals. Also I don't have a TV either, but I still pay for the advertising costs whenever I purchase a product from a company that advertises on TV and so do you. I expect the per annum cost is much higher that the cost of a TV license.
I doubt the overall cost is very high though compared to other forms of taxation
I think it's quite high at around 5%
Oh but of course, those of us that go out and work hard at making ourselves more employable, get the high value jobs and become successful should pay for those lazy good-for-nothing layabouts that sit on the dole.
I hope you get a horrible illness and have to live on £60 incapacity benefit for the rest of your life.
Since when did frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum become property?
Since the time that the Government though people would pay for it. BTW, feel free to use as much red as you want. -
Re:Where is the world going?
> Changi, a POW camp run by the Japanese during WWII,.. Changi's a famous jail in Singapore. AFAIK it's still there. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Changi%20j
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Re:Last year's news, changes a long way away£126.50 - thats $221 USD.
Here is an interesting quote from the TV licensing website. Emphasis is mine
If you receive British TV to your PC now by way of a tuner card you need a license, so I don't see why getting programming solely through the Internet should be any different.
Do I need a licence?
If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes (for example, a VCR, set-top box, DVD recorder or PC with a broadcast card) - you need a TV Licence. You are required by law to have one.
There have been some pretty interesting developments reported recently regarding TV and video content via the Internet with my UK ISP, NTL:
- NTL and BitTorrent debut UK's first 100Mbits broadband
- Cable co. NTL signs BitTorrent file-sharing deal
By the way, the license _technically_ isn't for owning a TV, if you have no means to receive a television signal, from cable, terrestrial or satellite noone can force you to pay a penny and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! -
the cats are behind it
Since toxoplasma makes rats unafraid of or even like cat urine, I think it's all a diabolical scheme by the cats. I used to think cats only tolerated us until they could figure out how to operate a can-opener, but now I've realised its a much more cunning scheme - to make humans the slaves of cats!
Old ladies are obviously the most affected after a lifetime of exposure, but its only a matter of time before we all become food suppliers and grooming slaves to our cat overlords. Just look what happens to people when you show them pictures of fluffy kittens, they go all gooey and unable to think straight - my girlfriend is a typical example, she defends her cats against any criticism, because they're so 'cute'.
We must act now, while some of us can still see what the cats are up to. We must destroy the cat menace! -
Re:Bullshit....there are atheist symbols?
Sure, the Flying Spagetti Monster is pretty much an athiest symbol, leaning more to darwinism as a "belief". Prior to that, the Darwin Fish has been around for a while.
I'm all for the creation of an athiest "religion". More of a collection of people who are fed up of religious nutjobs fighting for their own place in heaven on a global stage. I reckon there are more of us than them and it's about time to tell them we've had enough of their bullshit dogma.
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CmdrTaco has been scammed by Usenet schizo
Dear Rob
I'm sorry to have to tell you but you've been scammed by a well-known internet kook called Louis Savain into slashdotting his junk
If you google for "nothing moves in spacetime" and "rebelscience.org" you'll find lots of references to this particular paranoid schizophrenic (no, I'm not kidding)
He likes to spam sci.physics and sci.physics.relativity with his junk. One of his recent postings is fairly typical:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:59:17 +0000 (UTC),
glhan
>In article
>Traveler wrote:
>>On 22 Jan 2006 07:55:33 -0800, glhan
>>Repeat after me: NOTHING MOVES IN SPACETIME.
>World lines don't move in spacetime. When people talk about the motion of
>a particle they refer to a succession of points on the worldline, not the
>worldline in its entirety.
Repeat after me: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MOVES IN SPACETIME!
NOTTHIINGGG!!!!
What this means is that there is NO CHANGE in spacetime (that's why it
was called Einstein's block universe by Karl Popper) and spacetime is
a fictitious math construct with no counterpart in reality. Now, isn't
it a tad weird that your idol Einstein agreed with his friend Kurt
"lunatic" Godel when he announced in 1949 that the spacetime of GR
allows time travel to the past via time-like loops?
Now hold on a southern cotton picking second! Aren't Kurt Godel and
Albert Einstein revered by physicists as two of the smartest men that
ever lived? Yep. ahahaha... One then wonders how they can be so stupid
as to believe in motion in spacetime. ahahaha...
http://www./ rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm#Einstein
ahahaha...
>>> Or that your alien-induced lattice that exists nowhere is
>>>also an abstract model of your invention?
>>Nope. My lattice is not made of abstract crap but of real particles.
>>You crackpots call them virtual photons. ahahaha...
>You have a model that describes a lattice that is not made of abstract
>crap. You're like the screen writer who writes a line like "This isn't a
>movie, you know."
Maybe in your imagination but I know one thing: I am not an ass
kisser. I do my own thinking, than you very much. ahahaha... And
that's the way I like it. ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...
Physics is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...
Louis Savain
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
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Re:The e-mail I sent to the editor was ignored.
he also seems to be a vulgar and angry person
random googling
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Re:Although this seems "reasonable" in light of th
I'm talking about sites having to conform to google's whims in order to appear anywhere near the top of a google search. I'm talking about legitimate sites, not even sites selling anything. Sites that simply choose to design their sites in one way or another can have their google rank turned to crap.
The 'whims' of Google's that you're complaining about are just common sense. Google says, make your page clear and informative. If your page is clear and informative, guess what? Google ranks it higher. If your page is clear and informative and has something interesting to say, other people will find it interesting and link to it. If other people link to it, guess what? Google ranks it higher. Google says, don't change your URLs too often. That's common sense, too. If you ceaselessly redesign your site, leaving old URLs dangling as 404 errors, you're hurting people who link to you, and you're hurting people who've bookmarked you. That's common sense, too. All my bookmarks to my bank's site no longer work, because every time they do a redesign they change their URLs, and leave the old ones dangling. Sooner or later, that's going to annoy me enough to make me change banks.
If you do a Google search for 'Simon Brooke', you'll find me at the top although my home page is just that, a personal home page, and has no 'optimisation'. Simon Brooke the Insurance Broker, with an expensive, professionally designed site, comes second. Then there's Simon Brooke the professional actor on IMDB, then a guy who's into aeroplanes, then Simon Brooke the author.
So with all those people with something to sell in the list, how come I and the aeroplane geek make the first page? My site is simple and has been there a long time (more than ten years now, and on the same URL for eight). In that time a lot of people have linked to it, and it doesn't suffer link rot. The plane geek's page gets ranked well because he has good pictures which presumably get linked to.
And that's the lesson for all you soi disant web designers out there. Users aren't impressed with your fancy, flash 'splash pages', and guess what? Google isn't either. Users aren't impressed with text as graphics, and guess what? Google isn't either. Users aren't impressed with vacuous marketing puff, and guess what? Google isn't either.
If you've got something interesting and different to say, and you say it clearly, and you say it consistently in the same place, Google will find you. Tricks and cheats aren't needed.
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The Flat Earth idea is a common myth
I'm sure this paper has some merit, but the author does not lend himself credibility by sating that people believed the Earth was flat. It's a common myth, generally believed to have been encouraged by Washington Irving in his three-volume History of the Life, among other places. In fact, the significant belief at the time, encouraged by the Catholic Church, was that the Earth was the centre of all things with the sun travelling around it. Even then, a variety of cultures had already disproven that, including the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, who had an excellent understanding of the movements of the solar system.
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Re:Speak for yourself
I googled for "Data Privacy Act" on google.co.uk (anonymously, of course) -- there's no mention.
Do you think that might be because the phrase "Data Privacy Act" is one dredged up from your own fevered imagination? How about googling for a real world term like "Data Protection Act". You might notice, for example, that they are hiring for legal counsel with one of the repsonsibility being to advise all departments on data protection issues.
The problem here is you're just rambling randomly about how the evil criminal masterminds at Google might be breaking the law right left and centre and we have to prove they're not. This is mind bogglingly stupid. Yes, possibly Google managers are refusing to comply with data protection legislation or maybe they're running rampage with shotguns in London but you have to do better than "well because maybe they are and nobody has proved they're not and well maybe they are" if you want to convince anyone.
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There's no 'd' in
privilege __ ACtard
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Re:Lots of use! (But I want 3 screens!)
the suggestion is the Matrox Parhelia
it's been around for ages
http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/cre_pro/prod ucts/parhelia/256mb.cfm
google is your friend :
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=neverwinter+night s+multiscreen -
British teeth
$REALLY_OLD_LAME_JOKE_ABOUT_BRITISH_TEETH
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He might ban this cartoon!
Has this hit the US yet? Any papers showing solidarity with the Danes?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=danish+cart oons+upset+muslims&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/
http://www.welt.de/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm -
Freedom of speech
Has this hit the US yet? Any papers showing solidarity with the Danes?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=danish+cart oons+upset+muslims&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
http://www.welt.de/
http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm
