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Indeed. I could see something like Google Ngram Viewer being developed for going through this sort of thing for all sorts of interesting purposes, ranging from linguistics research and the etymology of idiomatic sayings to scripting more accurate period dramas. It could also be used to produce something along the lines of Google Trends, letting people see what the media is focusing on at any particular time. Moreover, it would form an interesting contrast if you had a timeline showing the rise and fall of various topics in the media alongside the rise and fall of those same topics in Google Trends, particularly if you broke it up by network, that way you could start to quantify some correlation between an individual network's coverage and a change in the amount of interest demonstrated by the public.

There's all sorts of really neat ideas that could come out of a dataset like this, many that would likely be much, much more creative than the ones I've said here.

Some good stuff there. The worst offenders, though, still are VST plugin developers.

The "already available" google map app is just a web-app. And is not as fast, easy, or as feature-filled as the native application was.

I agree, and must admit I didn't try it out. But as soon as Google's "Native" app gets kicked out of iOS 6, and Apple's "exclusive" then ends, you can bet that Google will be putting it right back in, via the App Store, and on this page.

Turn by turn navigation isn't available on all devices that iOS6 works with.

That is true. And for those people, who also feel (perhaps rightly for now) that Google Maps is superior, they can either access Google Maps through a browser, or d/l the Google Maps APP (along with several others, if desired).

USB On The Go works. Even without rooting it. That's extra storage right there.

Apple has turned into a Religion. It makes no sense, but people still believe in it.

Yeah, it's hard to understand why so many people cling to the old ways rather than embracing The One True Faith - may Schmidt the powerful and merciful live forever.

Are you retarded?

Yes I read it... I ignored the command line because it is a SEARCH BOX, not a COMMAND LINE. It has less command line like features than the google home page search box.

So, yes, I ignored the parent's incorrect information in my reply, rather than flaming the hell out of them. Sorry.

or pour shit in my drinks.

Ahem... What now? They pour substances into your drinks? Are you expected to continue drinking them?

More bullshit from the TSA -- they have unilaterally claimed the power to check any liquid even after the security checkpoint. The procedure, as described here, involves holding a swab over the opening to the liquid container and then putting a drop of some kind of solution on the swab, presumably to look for some kind of chemical reaction. There could have been some confusion at some point either with the victim of this procedure (thinking the TSA agent was adding a reagent directly to their beverage), or with the TSA goon themselves (actually adding the reagent directly to the victim's beverage). More at Google.

So if you owned a small restaurant in NYC near the close of prohibition

- prohibition. It's a decrease of my freedoms to produce, sell, consume a product. It's a decrease of freedoms brought upon by the government.

(the mob was branching out now that their main funding source was being eliminated)

- the mob that was created by the prohibition.

and you were told to pay protection money to the mobster or there'd be a "accident", would increased police protection (including protection from Big Tony) be a net increase or decrease in your freedom to keep your kneecaps?

- as I said: police force, court system, jails none of it required income taxes.

Did you think that before 1913 in USA there were no cops, no jails and no courts? In fact I don't believe government should be involved in criminal law, prisons and policing, I have expressed my opinions on this matter enough times, I don't want to repeat myself.

However given that most people do not understand that point and are ready to have the predictable knee-jerk reaction to what I am talking about, I'd say that there is no problem with people organizing their city in a way that pays for cops, a prison and a few judges. And none of it requires any income taxes at all. However there is something else to be said about the criminal organizations: they exist regardless of the system people have. Crime happens in every system, would you agree?

I personally believe that a restaurant owner should be able to hire a private security force and take out every criminal that threatens him and he shouldn't be liable for it in the eyes of government.

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I, and every economics book, disagree with that nonsense

- I beg to differ.

Hold on a moment, just a second.

I'll start with this one, which is ready for a quick view online , this one to debunk the propaganda about the so called 'natural monopoly'. It's government created monopoly, there is nothing 'natural' about it.

and now a list of many other economics books that disagree with you:

The Real Crash: Americaâ(TM)s Coming Bankruptcy â" How to Save Yourself and Your Country

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

Crash Proof 2.0: How To Profit From the Economic Collapse

The Little Book of Bull Moves: Updated and Expanded

Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse

The Road to Serfdom, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Economics in One Easy Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

Americaâ(TM)s Great Depression

The Case Against the Fed

The Biggest Con: How the Government is Fleecing You

How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesnâ(TM)t

The Kingdom of Moltz

The Wealth of Nations

Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

The Mainspring of Human Progress

State Against Blacks

Knowledge And Decisions

A treatise on political economy: or The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth

Conscience of a Conservative

Actually, Apple's the one that seems to consistently give out numbers sold, not shipped (when they give out numbers at all)--unlike, say, Samsung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab#Sales

What's the difference between Android activations and sales? Isn't a device only activated when it's sold? Those activation numbers are still higher than the shipped/sold numbers, so it still looks impossible. (Unless a single device can be activated twice or more, and those extra activations count in the total--in which case, the number is meaningless.)

FYI on Apple Sold to quote the SEC 10K filing from Apple:
"Part II. Item 7. Page 26
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates > Revenue recognition

Net sales consist primarily of revenue from the sale of hardware, software, digital content and applications, peripherals, and service and support contracts. The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. Product is considered delivered to the customer once it has been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the Company’s product sales, these criteria are met at the time the product is shipped. For online sales to individuals, for some sales to education customers in the U.S., and for certain other sales, the Company defers recognition of revenue until the customer receives the product because the Company retains a portion of the risk of loss on these sales during transit. "

So please stop saying that. As for Samsung What are you on about. Android is by Google the original announcement https://plus.google.com/u/0/110023707389740934545/posts/R5YdRRyeTHM its by Hugo Barra.to quote "Today is a big day for Android... 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day." September 12th It activated means just that official Android devices [Not Amazons] activated at Google...that means in customers hands switched on :)

Once upon a time, when I first got on the Internet (late 1980s), there was no anonymity. Sysadmins voluntarily adhered to a policy where each user's online identity and their real identity were linked. If someone ever found a way to break this link, it was considered a bug which needed to be fixed. It was staunchly enforced by admins who believed the net would devolve into a morass of misbehavior if people were allowed to post anonymously.

There were a few people running their own servers who bucked the trend, but it wasn't until AOL joined USENET that pseudonyms became a fact of life on the Internet. AOL allowed each account to have up to 5 usernames, ostensibly for families sharing a single AOL account. Obviously these extra usernames were quickly taken up by people wishing to post things online anonymously, which was good for free speech. But not surprisingly, spam was invented shortly thereafter.

All that's happening now is that the pendulum is starting to swing the away from anonymity as netizens struggle to figure out the best balance between real names and pseudonyms. The people at the pro-anonymity extreme won't like it, just like the people at the pro-real-name extreme didn't like it in the early 1990s. But as with most things the best balance is probably somewhere in between.

It's a bit above your $50 price tag, but moments googling "typing tutor toy" took a total of 0.8 seconds to complete and brought me this solution not far from your price range.

I had something like this as the oldest of 8 kids, the batteries were C or D and lasted for months/years. It was sturdy enough to easily endure the abuse that 8 kids put it through. We weren't "nice" to it.

That's why Google developed F1: The fault-tolerant relational database over Spanner. This database provides a traditional schema without named rows, and supports transaction-based relational SQL queries. Very interesting: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html

Firefox Issues Workaround for IE 0-Day
http://getfirefox.com/

Chrome Issues Workaround for IE 0-Day
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

I'd love to see your explanation of how a ship jumping around the universe would arrive back before it left.

Here's one with pretty graphs, but just googling it would show that this is correct.

Time dilation and other such effects would not happen. Its why wormholes do NOT violate relativity.

Ah, but given FTL travel/communication, and regular sub-luminal reference frames which do experience time dilation, you can use the FTL to send a message and a response that will be received before the original message was sent. Paradox.

Note that in the explanation of how this occurs, it does not matter how the FTL is achieved. All that matters is that the sub-luminal observers see information pass from A to B faster than light.

Chrome can be deployed by MSI and managed by GPO. They have the ADM templates right on their site.

Chrome can be deployed by MSI and managed by GPO. They have the ADM templates right on their site.

What more proof do you need that it's made of cheese, eh?

Everyone knows the moon is hollow:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+moon+theory

Duh... ;-p

Argentina is completely screwed up now. There is no logic other than figuring out strange ways for the government to steal. Oddly enough the president has a huge approval rating. It's an Economic Reality Distortion Field.

See https://www.google.com/search?q=president+of+argentina&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a ...

Searches related to president of argentina

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The summary is pretty inaccurate. The h-index was proposed by Jorge Hirsch, not Jorge Hurst. Rather than give a vague description, why not simply provide an exact definition? The h-index of a scientist is the largest number h, such that he/she has at least h papers each of which have received h or more [citations]. This is easier to understand if you look at the picture in the Wikipedia entry for h-index.

Made a minor clarification to your definition [in brackets].

IMO the definition should be modified to exclude self-citations. Scientists like to cite their earlier work (and should, if it is on the same topic), but the h-index as currently defined temps spamming your papers with self-cites just to drive your index up.

If anyone is interested, if you can find an author's profile on Google Scholar it will show their h-index, plus a modified h-index that only counts citations in the past five years. It will also list all their papers, the number of cites for each, and if you click, you can see the actual papers that have the cites.

For example, a certain Jorge G. Hirsch, presumably the proposer of the index, can be seen at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R5VYyU8AAAAJ&hl=en

Not every author sets up a profile, in which case all the information isn't automagically gathered up for you.

How about a Red Hat developer who says the desktop is suckage and broken? is HE a Microsoft fanboy too? And the Edubuntu developers? Are THEY fanboys?

That is why YOU sir are a FOSSie. Like a Moonie you have taken FOSS as a religion and like all religious zealots ANY statement that dares go against your God gets someone labeled a heretic. You would probably feel VERY comfortable in the ME right now, single minded religious zealotry is right up their alley. Maybe you should go? We certainly won't miss you.

Right, because technology from 70 YEARS ago is so meaningful today.

Funny you should mention that... Built in 1955, after we snagged a few smaller presses from Germany and the commies got a 30,000 ton press. Continues to operate to the present day, providing precision pressed aerospace components to much of the US aircraft production industry...

CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".

That makes sense on the surface, but it doesn't exactly sound like the attitude of a company that wants to be an innovator or technology leader. It might not be the attitude of a market leader, either. At the risk of sounding like a fanboy of another big tech firm, "Think Same" may not be the motto to live by. But then I'm CEO of nothing.

Things like the closest approximation they have to Visual Voicemail, Google Voice, involve the automatic indexing of your communications.

it has to be indexed somewhere, either the carrier is going to do it for you in which case you could install the applicable app or you are going to need to rely on a third party, something google is offering as an additional option via google voice.

The stock email client is actually quite unpleasant and featureless even compared to iOS's rather spartan client

what's "stock" on your phone would depend on the manufacturer (and in some cases carrier.) if you don't like the stock option then you are free to install one of the many alternatives

Things like the closest approximation they have to Visual Voicemail, Google Voice, involve the automatic indexing of your communications.

it has to be indexed somewhere, either the carrier is going to do it for you in which case you could install the applicable app or you are going to need to rely on a third party, something google is offering as an additional option via google voice.

The stock email client is actually quite unpleasant and featureless even compared to iOS's rather spartan client

what's "stock" on your phone would depend on the manufacturer (and in some cases carrier.) if you don't like the stock option then you are free to install one of the many alternatives

I doubt for example that you can run a compiler on that thing.

Thanks to AIDE, an Android tablet is a personal computer, and an iDevice is not.

It makes perfect sense. Try to frame someone who actually exists and he might be tried and acquitted, and the investigation will continue with added vigor. But throw the suspicion on a a fictitious shadow and they'll chase it for ever because they'll never catch it.

Students and business people and IT workers, etc, but not the 'general public'. For "them", it seems to me that we are simply getting back to the then-failed "internet devices" of ~2000 or so, which is all that *most* people really need; an internet-connected device as simple as a toaster, perfect for clueless/non-techie end users. Push a button and it works, no real worries about keeping up the security and updates and all that stuff like that which people with "real computers" have and will have to continue doing. Security for these 'toasters' can be pushed out by the OEM, as needed, and due to fragmentation and customization of the various embedded OS'es by the OEM's, that may be a good thing, creating several smaller targets for black hats instead of the one monolithic MS OS that is around for years to poke at until they find a break in it that puts 90+% of the market into vulnerability phase. Phones, tablets, WebTV (then and now), Audrey, Netpliance iOpener - same paradigm, slightly different form factors. What was old, is new again...

Oh, so you want prior art?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.eversource.shake2silence&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImJyLmNvbS5ldmVyc291cmNlLnNoYWtlMnNpbGVuY2UiXQ..

Last update was on December 2010 - so it's a fair to assume the first version was submitted even earlier. And that's just one example I could find quickly, of course. It wouldn't surprise me it there are many more other apps (for Android or iOS alike) that does the same thing and was made before.

And yeah, as rolfwind said, just because the idea was implemented only after 10 years after Microsoft entered the smartphone market, doesn't mean it's patentable. The technology needed for this idea wasn't ubiquotous on smartphones until some 4 or 5 years ago anyway, so you should rather start making the math at that point in time.

No, Patent D618677 shows how broken the patent system is.

>..the Windows environment is akin to...
Windows isn't stuck on XP anymore, as Slashdot posters seem to be.
How do you explain the malware problem on Android then, there is no Windows code there?

Google news search for Android malware.

Not to mention the increasing malware problem on OS X. Also, why is there pretty much no malware in iOS?
Perhaps there is a bigger problem with user run software than just blaming Microsoft for all the ills in the world?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/the-dancing-bunnies-problem.html

Want to take a guess at the malware infection rate of Windows RT vs. Windows 8?

WRONG.
I'm saying that remote applications should be displayed *the right way* and Wayland does nothing to prevent the ability to display remote applications *the right way*.

Go look at the chrome remote desktop extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp

When a stupid browser extension does a better job of cross-platform remote GUI management than X, it is time to do something better than X instead of pretending that we reached a magical Utopia in 1985 and that anybody using facts and logic to disagree is some sort of religious heretic.

It's also why the "no GMO" and "organic" people are part of the problem.

GMOs often have lower yields, and organic yields are comparable to conventional -- and are more sustainable, since they're not petrochemical dependent.

I respectfully suggest you stop drinking Monsanto-brand Kool Aid and seek to become more informed about this issue.

I'm curious, where have you seen it being advertised as the Java language? I'm trying to find any reference that isn't related to the java.lang libraries, but I can't.

This stupid clown spent years telling the world how awesome Android is because the code is there for anyone to take, then prevented people from accessing the Honeycomb source because someone might try to use it on a phone and now, once more, we see what a hypocrite and an asshole he truly is.

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I'm a professional asshole

Andy Rubin sez:

We were surprised to read Alibaba Group's chief strategy officer Zeng Ming's quote "We want to be the Android of China" when in fact the Aliyun OS incorporates the Android runtime and was apparently derived from Android.

Based on our analysis of the apps available at http://apps.aliyun.com/ the platform tries to, but does not succeed in being compatible.

At least their app market has all the popular apps already, like Rovio's Angry Birds. Oh, wait, it's not Rovio's, it's chs2523's.

I'd understand Google's unwillingness to share pre-release source of Android when it's likely to end up in Acer partner's source tree of completely different OS, but cutting them off altogether is too drastic.

And what is your plan regarding Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates? Where's your leverage then?

I'm sorry I wasn't able to solve the whole 6000 year-old middle-east crisis in one Slashdot post. I'll try to be more thorough next time! :)

Obviously, this is just a start. I think if the whole region would start quieting down, it would create a foundation for better dialogue with all the countries in that area. We negotiate quite peacefully with Germany and Japan now; it wasn't really that long ago we were trying to destroy each other.

If any low-budget YouTube clip or Danish cartoon can set the region ablaze we still have a long ways to go.

I just thought of this as a first step, since we are spending the money over there anyway, seemingly with little result.

I'm going to assume you're managing a large XP network with roaming profiles, because none of your complaints make sense otherwise. I'm also not a Windows admin, so forgive some lack of familiarity.

* I can't set the local cache size (what browser in their right mind saves 1GB(sic!) on the local hard drive?)

Did you redirect the entire Application Data folder onto a network share? If you did, stop it--it's huge even without Chrome's cache. If you didn't, stop worrying about a gig of local disk.

* It saves it's EXE in the Windows profile. I thought Program Files existed for a reason....

This is so non-administrators can install and update Chrome.

* We have re-routed MyDocuments to a home directory. Chrome default saves downloads in Downloads under MyDocuments. EVERY single file! Attachments from mail or not doesn't matter. 99% can be deleted but I still need to check with the user for the of chance that he/she has edited something in the folder.

So go change Chrome's download folder. This isn't rocket science. Google also provides an MSI installer and group policy objects, which I'd imagine makes that easier.

And do you really spend time deleting individual files out of other users' Documents folders? Windows has supported disk quotas since NT, and it probably costs more to pay you for an hour of download deleting than just buying a new disk for the file server.

It saves it's EXE in the Windows profile. I thought Program Files existed for a reason....

The second result of a Google search for "chrome program files" points to this download page. I can't verify this exact page still works (I'm on Linux right now, so Google doesn't give me a Windows download), but I do have Chrome installed in Program Files on my Windows system.

No signs of Christians throwing a tantrum...

No, all it takes for Christians to throw a tantrum is the existence of a doctor's office:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence

As for Muslims, what delicate sensibilities would you be referring to? I look around my town and I see Muslims going about their business, not killing anyone or burning anything. Do you think they have not heard of the video? What, are they a different kind of Muslim? Some of my Muslim friends moved to America from the very countries where these riots are happening and I have at least a few very orthodox Muslim friends who are not rioting.

The issue here is not any specific religion. Muslims in America are not watching police crackdowns, they are not seeing foreign occupying forces in their lands, they did not have their government replaced with a brutal dictatorship which was then overthrown by another brutal dictatorship, etc. Life in America is nice; they have no reason to be angry, and they take offensive remarks about their religion the same way I do (and trust me, as a Jew, I see plenty of offensive things on the Internet), by shrugging it off and calling the people who made those remarks idiots.

If those countries where the riots are happening were nice places to live, there would be no riots, regardless of this video.

I can use two things to blow your pathetic moral equivalence to smithereens:

Beslan

Piss Christ.

But I'll see your desperate and lame citing of SIX murderous attacks by anti-abortion fools to paint billions of Christians, and raise you 19,100 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11/2001:

Islam: Making a True Difference in the World, One Body at a Time :

This is just the last 30 days of Islamic violence:

List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2012.09.14 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Muslim 'separatists' shoot a villager in the head in front of his wife and 7-year-old daughter.
2012.09.13 Pakistan Quetta 3 4 A 2-year-old is among the casualties when Sunnis spray a car carrying Shias with automatic weapons fire.
2012.09.13 Pakistan Akkakhel 4 2 Two children are among four members of a family crushed in their own home by a Lashkar-e-Islam rocket.
2012.09.12 Somalia Mogadishu 8 10 Eight people are turned into 'pieces of meat' by a suicide bombing at a hotel.
2012.09.11 Yemen Sanaa 12 12 Twelve people bleed out in the aftermath of a suspected al-Qaeda blast.
2012.09.10 Iraq Bayaa 8 32 Eight people at a coffee shop are blown to bits by a Mujahid car bomb.
2012.09.10 Syria Aleppo 17 40 The FSA claims a bombing outside a hospital and school that leaves seventeen civilians dead.
2012.09.10 Afghanistan Kunduz 21 15 A Holy Warrior blows himself up at a demonstration, sending twenty-one other souls to Allah.
2012.09.10 Pakistan Parachinar 14 45 Sunnis murder fourteen members of the minority Shiite sect with a car bomb that rips through a packed market.
2012.09.10 Iraq Mussayib 3 2 Sunni bombers take down three Shiites near their shrine.
2012.09.10 Syria Aleppo 20 0 Video surfaces of the Salman al-Farisi members executing twenty captured prisoners in cold blood while praising Allah.
2012.09.10 India Baramulla 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a village head to death.
2012.09.10

The last time I checked, Chrome required an Android 4.x device that comes with the Google Play Store, while Firefox could run on any Android 2.2/2.3 device with an ARMv7 CPU and enough RAM. Not all devices are officially upgradable to Android 4, and not all devices come with Google Play Store.

Fuck that. Don't even play THAT nice.

CyanogenMod balked at it because they didn't want to piss off the developers (boo fucking hoo), but PDroid solves the "neutered apps crash" problem by feeding it bogus data.

My sons school uses android tablets with this, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fonjector.android.screencapservicefree2&hl=en

I think Sony Xperia line of products are doing something that allow USB data (OTG) and charging at the same time, see https://sites.google.com/site/sonicboomworld/ video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v7DjU6nsVM .

This guy built a dock that is able to charge the device when it is being a USB Host. I have read the official Sony Live Dock does it and I think it is true (who will build a dock and advertise that you can plug a PS3 controller/Mass storage device... and not charge at the same time) but I am searching for confirmation

What you can't do apparently is charge and power and USB guest device, If you are charging the external device must be powered by other means. The Sony dock apparently powers the device. This is what I have understood by I could be mistaken

150 EUR, not USD.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=EURUSD

It's actually just under $200 at the moment, which is still trivial in comparison, sure, but mind you this fine doesn't appear to be from the music being downloaded, but merely for the connection being left unsecured.

Tech Specs
AC INPUT
110V-240V
DC OUTPUT
5Vdc/2A

I've had the displeasure of dealing with this sociopath on a number of occasions (Meyer) and he really is a piece of work (e.g. nutcase.) The cost that he whines about is purely speculative, but of course, we must believe him because his opinions are fact. I hate to say it, but I don't have any sympathy at all.

Also, he's asking for financial contributions to defend the DRM licensing scheme he's using. What is he thinking? Does he even know he's posting on Slashdot? There are plenty of good non-DRM'd flight simulators on Android, both free and paid ones.

Here is my favorite one for instance: F18 Carrier Landing Lite

Google says its about 70 miles/hr

I hear there is this thing called Google. You can use it to find things on the internet with just a few carefully selected keywords. You should try it sometime.