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Happy 7th Birthday Google!
AviN456 writes "On this day, in 1998, Google was born. Seven years later, and it has not only become the most popular search engine on the internet, but it has also become an integral part of many people's online life. From Google search to Google mail, Google Earth to Google Moon. It has even made its way into language as a common word.It is quite undeniable. Google is an amazing achievement. Happy birthday Google, and here's to many many more!"
As soon as I saw that png on Googles website, I KNEW Slashdot would cover it. I thought to myself "Google farted, that sound you hear is a million Slashdotters sniffing."
Seriously, thanks for gmail though. I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
..a Google posting! ;)
Grammar Zealots: please spare a non-english writer (lastknight dot com)
...welcome our seven year old overlords.
;-)
By ten, I predict that we're calling it the "GoogleNet" instead of the "Internet".
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check it out on http://moon.google.com/ - zoom all the way in..
i always knew it!
Here's to hoping google will be here for its next 7 years... and that it will still abide by its motto.... :)
Let's all sing a round of Happy Birthday. And while we're at it, we better make sure to pay our royalties to AOL.
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
I for one accept our new 7 year old overlords
Google Inc was incorporated on the 7th September 1998 doesn't that make its birthday the 7th?
I only know this 'cause that's my birthday too!
Too bad I can't sing them a birthday song without invoking a lawsuit.
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I was half expecting them to own gbirthday.com and googlebirthday.com :(
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I can understand announcing 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, or 50th but 7th???
"from the don't-sing-or-your-have-to-pay-royalties dept."
Surely some mistake. Shouldn't that be "you'll"?
The day Altavista died. It's amazing how fast and how hard Google crushed all the other search engines.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Take a look at Google Moon and zoom in all the way. I TOLD YOU the moon is made of cheese!
Having a smoking section in a public restaurant is like having a peeing section in a public swimming pool.
Pick the Apollo 16th site and zoom in, all the way...
Wow! /. is excelling itself in the incessantly meaningless PR drivel!
First the 360 ad campaign, now Google.
Unn - I use Google for searching, all the other stuff they provide is mass market crap for the braindead. Lets get back to basics!
Oh, that Google!
Infact, just seen this from that search above http://www.google.com/ig. Nice.
Car analogies break down.
4 days ago Microsoft turned 30: The Company Everyone Loves To Hate
A typo on Slashdot? Unheard of!
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
Doesn't someone else have a birthday around this time of year?
Here's hoping Google stays hip at 30.
One of the early servers for Google was made from Lego blocks.s /display/0-4-Google.htm
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Does anyone remember when the first Google article was posted on Slashdot? I remember checking out the new search engine and it sucked (compared to Altavista). Then a few more articles on Slashdot and it became my preferred search engine.
:-)
I guess the Slashdot editors deserve some Google shares...
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Google's official birthday is September 7th.... (Link is to Google Cache. Otherwise, first hit for "google birthday" and check the cache.....)
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
you know, thats a mighty big kid for seven. You might want to start saving money for groceries now... for when they're a teenager.
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Google has been renamed to Googte!
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I'm 21!
(So is Avril Lavigne)
Anybody who's seen Wallace and Gromit knows the moon is actually made of _green_ cheese!
Interesting fact...
Search for "Google Birthday" in google witht he "I am feeling lucky" option and Google will take you to a Page not Found, on this page there used to be an anser about when is google birthday...
If you look at that page cache, you will see that the answer will be:
Google's official birthday is September 7, 1998.
Neat uh?
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
I'm always interested to see the culture at Google and the things they do for the employees. We always hear about the food that's on campus there and the activities they plan for the employees. I wonder if any big celebration is planned for today. I can only imagine what they have in store...
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Only 38 posts and their site is already... oh wait.
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We welcomed our new Internet Overlords!
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I just saw the Google logo with the birthday and the 7. So I Googled "google birthday" the first hits that come up are a dead link to google.com help support indicating google's b-day is Sept. 7th.
Google: Help Center Google's official birthday is September 7, 1998. If Google were a person, it would have started elementary school late last summer (around August 19), ...
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Fourth hit, http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/10251.html,Google's birthday--with no logo?? - Google Blogoscoped Forum Today--september 7th--is google's birthday, but they have no logo to celebrate. isnt that strange? 09/07/05 [X] 12 days ago. XGen Technologies [PersonRank 1 ...
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So is Google 7 or older? What are the making the decision off and why did they used to indicate they celebrated on the 7th? Any one have any ideas?
Best, J - HecklerHalf their shit is still in beta after 7 years, surely they are broke by now!
:)
Come on guys, to step up to plate and actually ship a product to make some cash, some quick decisions will have to be made
It would have been nice to have had a slightly more objective description of Google's rise to dominating the search engine market, and now branching out into other areas of the Internet.
Just because their mission state is 'do no evil' rather than 'a computer on every desktop' doesn't mean that they will be any less evil in their tactics than any other large corporation.
I know several people who work at Google, and gadzooks, they believe ALL of the propaganda, and regurgitate it at every opportunity: "our chef used to be the Grateful Dead's chef, and we had a 'cook-off' to pick the replacement". Hello? The reason you have a chef and get free lunch and dinner is so that you never leave the office.
When one of my friends in Google needed paternity leave (this is in the Dublin office btw), he was told he could get the statutory minimum of two weeks unpaid leave, and nothing else. Yet he says 'Well, you can see their point' instead of going 'those bastards, you think they would give me at least 1 week paid leave'.
I used to work at a large multi-national tech company, and was similarly drawn in by their rhetoric and internal propaganda, so much so that I actually reccomended to some friends to buy some stock. Needless to say the stock has since dropped in value by 90%, and I learned some healthy scepticism.
What will it take for Googlites to learn similar scepticism? And how are normal, non google-employees drawn in by the propaganda? Is it the flouride in the water?
Marty
Is anyone else getting tired of watching Slashdot chase Google's tail? It's getting ridiculous.
by Kathy Kachelries
After three hours, the old man in front of me had worked his way through six beers, in addition to every help desk joke Id already heard. The cupholder. The any key. The write click. These are the stories people tell, now. These are the fish that got away.
Let me ask you something, the man said. I didnt argue. One of the first tricks I learned about being a bartender is to make them think youre interested.
Have you ever created a web site?
I shook my head.
Not at all? Not even one of those geocities things?
Nope.
What about a blog? Or an ebay About Me page? You didnt even have an AOL site or something?
Do I look like an AOL user to you? For the record, I dont think AOL even has access numbers in the valley anymore. Im sure I have something, somewhere, I said, realizing that I was jeopardizing my tips. Besides, I had a distant memory of a single Angelfire page back in middle school.
You know what Google is?
Yes, I said. I was running low on patience.
No, I mean, do you really know? More than just the site?
Reluctantly, I shook my head.
You ever meet anyone who worked for them?
Dont think so.
You havent. Nobody works for them anymore.
I shrugged, and took the mans empty pint. I didnt offer to refill it.
Theyre self-contained. Its all automated, in there. Its underground.
I nudged the basket of pretzels in his direction. Why dont you eat something? I suggested. He shook his head with so much force that I thought he might knock himself off of the stool.
Listen. Hear me out. You know how Google works, he said, but didnt want for a response. They cache things, right? Like they send out these spiders and take pictures of everything on the web, so when youre searching, youre not even searching the internet.
Ive heard that before, but it never made much of a difference to me. Same thing, though, I said.
You ever wonder why Google doesnt cache its own searches?
They program around it.
No. Thats what you think. Thats what everyone thinks. But it started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea. No one thought to stop it back then. That web site you had, the one you forgot about. Almost everyones got one of those, right? But Google doesnt forget. Googles studied that thing so many times that its studied its own caches of you. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that its bigger than the internet?
Its still a part of the internet, though.
No. Now, the internet is a part of Google.
The man had a point. I nodded.
Heres the thing. Google has memorized who you are. Its memorized all of us, through those little forgotten bits that we leave behind like breadcrumbs. And whats more important, its memorized its own idea of you. Google is omniscient. Its omniscient and omnipotent. When it cached its cache for the first time, back in 1994, thats when Google realized what it was.
Gradually, it dawned on me what the man was getting at. You think its sentient.
I know its sentient.
How?
He smiled, but it seemed kind of empty. Me and Google go way back. But what Im saying is, he continued, It knows us. All of us. It is us.
For the first time, the man fell silent. He touched his finger to the bar and began tracing circles in the condensation, apparently lost in thought.
Think about that website you created, okay? That website will last forever, do you understand? That website is echoing through cyberspace. Its one of the nine billion names of God.
Actually, thats "googol"
Don't forget the recently released Google Video. ;)
Especially the random videos page is a good way to kill boredom
Google is good, don't get me wrong, but the fundamental search aspect hasn't been upgraded in years. I'm not talking about skinning the search page; the minimalist approach is better. No, I'm talking about the actual searches. As an example, one that has never worked is string searches with wildcard characters as literals. Try "#Deleted" and you'll see what I mean. I've scoured the help pages, and message boards for a work-around (double quotes, double characters, characters to precede, etc) and have never been able to find it.
No, that's a googleplex.
Bah, I DENY Google! What are you gonna do about it?
Anything that challenges Microsoft makes software better for everyone. IE was stagnant from the time of crushing Netscape until Firefox, even hotmail, and msn search are better as a result of google. I would never use a Microsoft product outside of work or so my wife can run Photoshop CS2, but I do appreciate the rising tide raising all boats.
I don't really intend on bashing on Google, I use google and like google just as a much as anyone else. But that being said, Google's incredible and HUGE success is a bit scary. I can't help but compare it to Microsoft, whom we all love and cherish right ? .... right ? ... wrong.
..well... basically a truckload of services (that we all like) but nonetheless, they're getting big.
... and this is where I put a question mark, in the end...Bill Gate, Eric Schmidt, Me, You, we're all human right ? By nature, humans are greedy, self conscience makes us control it but at what point will you decide that your company shouldn't grow anymore ... what business man in his right mind will say that ? they have investors to feed after all.
..of course, people might (will :p) disagree with me, but if you reply, try to tell me why I'm wrong (or right) what are your opinions and such, I'd like to avoid anonymous comments like "dud3, j00 sux0rz" and more stuff like "here's why i think you're off the track..."
I can't help but notice also that Google has started spreading its wings, its not merely a search engine now, its a mail servive, a VoIP service, a map service
That's also how MS started and god knows how much I hate MS for their strategy to buy the competition, for their release-early, patch later type of software strategy, for the way they acquired (stole?) DOS, I basically hate MS for attempting to be everywhere in my house : the livingroom, the office, the basement.
Well, I know, Google ain't MS, Google are good guys aren't they ?
So basically, I'm just afraid that we're encouraging another unkillable giant to grow and that once we realize that google just simply owns the net, we'll also realize it sorts of owns us too and that day, it will be too late because we'll be talking to MS #2.
Ok, now I've somewhat bashed on Google on their birthday....not really intended but it seemed fitting to talk about google today.
Now
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen
And that word was “Googol.”
Which gives them something in common with the Macintosh: both misspelled (intentionally or otherwise) the thing that inspired their names.
(posting a link explaining where the Mac got it’s name is left as a +4, Informative exercise for the reader.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=www.google.com
Sept 15, 1997.
... and how many slashdot stories later?
Talk about pragmatism :).
May you long continue accepting money from web retailiers that sell DVDs and books in return for rigging the search results in their favor, while at the same time proclaiming that your motto is "don't be evil". I know because I worked at such a retailer in the UK where you made them the offer to do this.
/. is also suspicious, but I'm sure no money changed hands!
Also, the amount of editorial you get here on
Cheers! Let's all raise our glasses ! Here's to another 7 years of not being evil! After all, it's just business !
Without you there would be no Booble!
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It pays to celebrate our overlords.
It's my birthday too!! Perhaps I will be as wise someday.
Was I the only one who read their birthday banner as 'Googte'?
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
a 1 followed by one hundred zeros is a googol. a 1 followed by a googol zeros is a googolplex.
Interestingly, they allegedly misspelled googol on accident. It also seems that the founders didn't know much HTML.
Do a search on Google for invalid clicks for more info ... http://www.google.com/search?q=invalid+clicks
You're right. I plead... tiredness?
Mr Macintosh ?
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
IANAL, but
I believe a word can only be trademarked if it's not a part of everyday language.
"Kentucky Fried Chicken", for example, can't take action against "Kansas Fried Chicken" or "Krunchy Fried Chicken" because 'fried chicken' is a term in the public domain.
In some countries only Heinz can sell Ketchup, while others sell tomato sauce, because Heinz has retained its trademark. In other countries the term Ketchup became part of the public domain, and so any company can provide (own brand) Ketchup.
If Google is becoming an everyday word for 'search', as espoused here, then surely anyone could launch their own "Yahoo! Google" or "Microsoft Google" or "Wal-Mart Google"?
its getting harder and harder to just access google.com from germany
they used to check your language preferences and redirect you to a localised version based on that. No prob, I removed all my language preferences.
Now they seem to be doing that based on my IP
They used to have a link to the main google page that would not redirect: http://www.google.com/ncr
That link does not work anymore (redirects to the country specific version)
http://www.google.us/ --> redirects to my country
by chance I now found that http://www.google.com/webhp still works without a redirect, but for how long?
Why cann't they just let ME decide which version I want to watch, the ones with all the new features or the one "customized" for the country i happen to connect from.
One of PJs sisters could probably give you a good rundown (the ones that are not covering the implosion of a certain company right now). But if you Google ||copyright "happy birthday" || the second link is http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp so yes you could get sued (by ASCAP ) if you sing "Happy Birthday" in public
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When Microsoft buys it we'll call it Google.Net
Cogito Ergo Sum
Damn, I was making all these cakes because I thought it was International Cake Day. Google always lets me know when to celebrate some holiday I'm not familiar with (Like Bastille Day). Now I just look like an idiot. An idiot with a bunch of cakes.
Advice for my fellow geeks: before seeking out that threesome you dream of, you might see what a TWOsome is like first.
Thanks CMDR I really appreciate. Slashdot is one of the last bastions of unspoiled geekism that I get to peruse on a daily basis. I've got the wife driving me crazy with Birthdays of second cousins that I've never even met. I'm going to showers for women I've never even heard about and now I've gotta worry about "Google's" frickin b-day too.
What'd my wife call you and tell you I don't have enough to do already. Just sneak in another birthday. I'm filling out the card and flowers now. Where do I address this to...
>you may now commence with the "I told your wife to stop calling me jokes"
I searched for all topics on Slashdot that were classified under "Google", and the 360th was something from 2004(!)... it won't go any farther back than that.
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Mispelled or not, it's pronounced the same and obviously inspired by the original.
- It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
...... Google will be the top dog trying to fend off a more agile upstart. They'll be losing employees to that upstart and Eric Schmidt will be one tossing chairs in his office and claiming that he'll bury people the way he buried Microsoft.
Just wait and see. History sometimes works out that way.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Dear Google,
Happy Birthday! I hope on this day we can celebrate together your success, for tomorrow we will crush you. If we can't crush you then we'll come pee in your flowerbed. If that doesn't work...we'll...we'll...we'll launch our own search engine. It will have a really cool Blue Screen of Death look and feel. The same feel you'll have when you feel the combined power of Microsoft and AOL knocking at your door.
Muh ha ha ha ha ha.
If you would like to surrender, you can reach me at billgates@gmail.com.
With Warmest Regards,
Bill
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
Those poor execs. What have they done to deserver this?
I guess bad grammar must be the norm (since you didn't quite pick up on that); he was referring to the fact that Taco's "whatever-dept." remark didn't make sense grammatically.
Here's hoping that Google will keep not abusing their power for another 7 years, and that we will still have a Free (as in Freedom, not as in Beer) Internet for another 7 years.
Here is the tail end of the search, sorted by date.
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am i the only one that for the most part lives my life google free? i honestly don't think i know anyone where google has become an integral part of their lives. every once in a while i'll use google maps but i have my own domain with all the email storage space i want and i always get better search results from yahoo. i'm sorry but i just don't see, at least right now anyway, why google would be an integral part of anyone's lives.
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You should be modded -1 Dork.
"Look at me, I'm an expert on words! I know everything about the word Google except the fact that it's actually spelled googol!"
Why don't we celebrate Microsoft's birthday on Slashdot? I'm new here, am I trolling, flame baiting or being funny?
No, it's a googol.
A googolplex is a one followed by a googol zeros.
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" ; # https://pipedot.org/~stderr & http://soylentnews.org/~stderr
Mac OS X has had the ability to label files for years, as did OS 9. (I switched to Mac after X, because of the BSD core and terminal, so I really can't comment on file labels prior to this.) It's not a feature that I use, but if Apple's labels don't offer enough for you, Unsanity offers a "haxie" (Labels X) that offers more features.
Happy birthday, Google! you've been my primary choice for searches for years, and I've gotten a lot of use out of Google Maps so far.
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Just to be clear, the word "google" was not created by these people - it means the number one plus one hundred zeros.
Hmm, so it means the number one?
(1 + 0 + 0 + ... + 0 = 0)
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Gz2WfTaMWTYJ:w ww.google.com/support/bin/answer.py%3Fanswer%3D486 6%26topic%3D367+happy+birthday+google&hl=en/
says that Google birthday is the 7th/Sept, I'm confused
I thought to myself "Google farted, that sound you hear is a million Slashdotters sniffing." I hear that the new "in" thing is to bash Google because everyone loves them
I recall when AltaVista was the most blindingly fast search engine around. I've been onsite there, and their lobby walls are (were?) covered with patents for their innovative database routines. And where are they now?
Of course, Google (and Yahoo! and MSN) has much more going on than AltaVista did, so the possibility of fading into obscurity is much less likely. Still, it's good to see that a young upstart company can displace a large, entrenched industry leader with a good idea and the drive to do so.
From the post: It [Google] has even made its way into language as a common word .
It's interesting (to me) to look at the slightly different approaches between Microsoft and Google, and the lexicon of their products. I know it's a little bit of an apples and oranges thing but Microsoft, rather than having products so good they become part of the language, chose words so common you virtually can't finish a couple of sentences without having used one of their products as a word.
Whereas Google's product arose from a good idea and great implementation, and was done so well it became part of our lexicon. Heck, they even coined it as a non-existent word (though cleverly derivative)!
It's interesting (again, to me) how this reflects the long-standing comments about Microsoft: they don't innovate, they embrace and extend. Look, they've done it with their product names and our language! And, they've excelled at it!
Idiot. its not a goatse link. The joke is that on moon.google.com (which is satellite imagery of the moon, like on maps.google.com) when you zoom to far, it just shows an image of swiss cheese.
For those who long for those days of descript.ion - AcdSee32 does the same. I've been using it for years now, and it's a lot handier than the standard explorer.
http://jcsnippets.atspace.com/ - a collection of Java & C# snippets
Like many slashdotters I would like to know when is the appropriate time to turn on them, complain about their shoddy products, monopolistic practices, etc. etc. a la Microsoft and anyone else that does something that violates our dearly held , mom's-basement dwelling sense of right and wrong. When will be the tipping point? When will I come to slashdot and see articles reviling their name and casting them in Dante's 7th Level with Gates, Ballmer, SCO and the other techno-sodomites?
Google announced a new larger index in the birthday message. It seems that this was accomplished at least in part by caching sites with SIDs. Among other things this adds caching for every PHPBB message ever. It's a little easier to see how they grew their index so much.
I've had to alter the formatting slightly to get it past Slashdot's spam filter.
Next I guess is Goo8le, then Goo9le, or Googl9.
Then I am not so sure, Go10gle? G10ogle? G0ogle?
How long can they keep this up???
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I remember the days when Altavista came along it was a godsend to the internet, now the might of Google has all but wiped out the competition. Sure Yahoo has a better media search, but have you ever tried typing in a question to the ask search engine yuk. (BTW they advertise the engine as being able to answer questions)
Google's ok, but it can be a nightmare trying to find something that you don't know quite what it's called. Try finding 'abstraction filtration comparison' by searching for software reverse engineering clean room copyright law, or whatever.
Google needs some kind of proximity, occurrence count, font size/layout ranking system.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Forbes just listed their richest 400 Americans(*), 95% of them billionaires. Sergey Brin is in the top 20 with eleven billion, and is the youngest on the list. They have a cartoon of baby carriage with the baby saying "Goo-Goo".
(* I believe there are some younger non-American billionaires such as the Onasis granddaughter.)
I wonder if the past 7 years were the good 7 years or the bad seven. Anyway.. happy birthday google :) wonder if in 7 years, google will buy the world's tollroads ;)
"From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen" - Cat Stevens
but /. does need more of this. thought it was great.
That would explain the awful W3C standards (non-)compliance that Google has
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
I'm NOT a proponent of ID, although I personally belief in the Jewish Creation story, I also understand how the lack of specifics in biblical Hebrew make the "modern" translations (especially the common Hebrew Bible -> Greek translation of Hebrew Bible -> Latin New Testament -> English translation) AWFUL. I think that one can learn an awful lot about mankind and our role in the world from Genesis, and see no conflict with Genesis's story and its moral lessons and evolution as a scientific explanation.
I do, however, take MAJOR issue with the politicization of science. I responded to a post suggesting that the next steps was witches and evil spirits whose tag-line was "pissing of the religious right." I take SERIOUS issue with the anti-religious left that has deified "science," and not particularly useful science at that.
I don't, however, have an issue with including ID in a school curriculum, albeit on a limited scale. I think that any high school lecture on evolution SHOULD explain the limitations and explain how others believe that there is an intelligent design involved. Traditional Jewish thought maintains that Hashem uses natural process for miracles... things like low tides splitting seas, things like that.
The reason for the leeches/maggots post was just to point out the danger of the worship of science. For about a century those were treated as mankind's barbaric past... yet after 100 years of insulting our historical healing, we test it scientifically and find out that it is valid for certain treatments.
I find what is lacking in these issues is any willingness to question why or question scientists. Why we've decided that people that spent 7 years in one particular institution to be granted a Ph.D are somehow immune from agendas or ideologies. Science is a tool, people use tools to accomplish goals.
The reason I laugh... think about the impact of evolution and look at some events... notice that the proponents of "science only" don't learn the lessons of natural selection.
Assumption: leeches and maggots were not valid forms of healing.
Historical Experiment: some societies used them, some didn't
Result: the societies that used them (the West) seemed to take over the planet
Popular Conclusion: that was are barbarous past, it's remarkable that we survived
Scientific/Evolution Conclusion: perhaps that was a factor that caused the Christian world to dominate the planet, prolonging lives and increasing child bearing
Assumption: high child births will destroy society
Historical Experiment: Rome collapsed within a few generations of rampant pedophilia that required the passage of marriage laws to increase population
Recent Historical Experiment: Western birthrates have been plummeting for generations as we've "advanced," and Europe can't survive without Arab immigration, India with a higher birthrate is growing rapidly, China's enlightened "one child policy" is creating tremors in its society as marriage isn't an option for large chunks of a generation, Israel ceded Gaza to its enemies and parts of Samaria because of demographic problems, and America's social security network is showing serious stresses)
Popular Conclusion: high birthrates are a function of stupid barbarians, enlightened societies will create gender equality and dismiss child bearing to an option
Scientific/Evolution Conclusion: societies that aren't fruitful and multiplying enter a period of decline and collapse, political/economic growth requires political growth
That is my issue, those that worship at the alter of science have created a idol to worship, the scientific community. They worship it as the bastion of truth the way previous generations of idolators worshipped the sun or the moon. Neither community UNDERSTOOD what they were looking at. Science is an INCREDIBLY powerful tool that can explain historical phenomenon and help us make better decisions. It Science-anity is an attempt to replace G-d with science, and worships the scientific expe
Zoom in all the way, color is off....should be green?
4dos rules. When I found I needed more and more to use Windows, I started using Take Command as my shell, rather than Program Manager.
Anyway, descript.ion, and the labels discussed here which I assume are in fact similar to 4dos's use of descript.ion, seem rather obsolete now. Modern filesystems let you use long filenames with spaces and other odd characters, along with CLI filename completion to make it easier to type them. If you're naming your files in 8.3 (or similar) and wishing you could label them...why not just give them long, descriptive filenames?
For example, if I download the latest version of Opera and it's filename is ow32enen50.exe, in the download "save as" dialog, I'll change it to "Opera 8.5 ow32enen50.exe", thereby saving the original name (in case I ever need it) and giving it a useful description too. If I use a serial number to register a shareware program (like Opera used to be), I'll put that in the filename too, like "Opera 8.01 asdf-jhkl-12345-qwerty ow32enen801.exe".
Another example would be a file containing notes. I might name it "Notes about the broken copier.txt".
If a file is required by the system to have a specific name, I'm likely to put in a 0 byte file with a description named the same + some notes, so it is sorted alphabetically behind, so:
"/usr/local/bin/joe"
"/usr/local/bin/joe is a good text editor"
or
"c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ctfmon.exe"
"c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ctfmon.exe is an annoying feature that wont go away no matter how much you delete it remove it from the registry turn it off in the control panel and so on so I put in a zero byte file that causes random errors when windows trys and fails to run it"
It's not perfect, but it's good enough for somebody who says "I wish I had this feature" to use until the feature shows up.
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
The correctly punctuated version, from here:
The Nine Billion Names Of God
by Kathy Kachelries
September 12th, 2005
After three hours, the old man in front of me had worked his way through six beers, in addition to every help desk joke I'd already heard. The cupholder. The any key. The write click. These are the stories people tell, now. These are the fish that got away.
"Let me ask you something," the man said. I didn't argue. One of the first tricks I learned about being a bartender is to make them think you're interested.
"Have you ever created a web site?"
I shook my head.
"Not at all? Not even one of those geocities things?"
"Nope."
"What about a blog? Or an ebay About Me page? You didn't even have an AOL site or something?"
"Do I look like an AOL user to you?" For the record, I don't think AOL even has access numbers in the valley anymore. "I'm sure I have something, somewhere," I said, realizing that I was jeopardizing my tips. Besides, I had a distant memory of a single Angelfire page back in middle school.
"You know what Google is?"
"Yes," I said. I was running low on patience.
"No, I mean, do you really know? More than just the site?"
Reluctantly, I shook my head.
"You ever meet anyone who worked for them?"
"Don't think so."
"You haven't. Nobody works for them anymore."
I shrugged, and took the man's empty pint. I didn't offer to refill it.
"They're self-contained. It's all automated, in there. It's underground."
I nudged the basket of pretzels in his direction. "Why don't you eat something?" I suggested. He shook his head with so much force that I thought he might knock himself off of the stool.
"Listen. Hear me out. You know how Google works," he said, but didn't want for a response. "They cache things, right? Like they send out these spiders and take pictures of everything on the web, so when you're searching, you're not even searching the internet."
I've heard that before, but it never made much of a difference to me. "Same thing, though," I said.
"You ever wonder why Google doesn't cache it's own searches?"
"They program around it."
"No. That's what you think. That's what everyone thinks. But it started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea. No one thought to stop it back then. That web site you had, the one you forgot about. Almost everyone's got one of those, right? But Google doesn't forget. Google's studied that thing so many times that it's studied its own caches of you. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that it's bigger than the internet?"
"It's still a part of the internet, though."
"No. Now, the internet is a part of Google."
The man had a point. I nodded.
"Here's the thing. Google has memorized who you are. It's memorized all of us, through those little forgotten bits that we leave behind like breadcrumbs. And what's more important, it's memorized it's own idea of you. Google is omniscient. It's omniscient and omnipotent. When it cached its cache for the first time, back in 1994, that's when Google realized what it was."
Gradually, it dawned on me what the man was getting at. "You think it's sentient."
"I know it's sentient."
"How?"
He smiled, but it seemed kind of empty. "Me and Google go way back. But what I'm saying is," he continued, "It knows us. All of us. It is us."
For the first time, the man fell silent. He touched his finger to the bar and began tracing circles in the condensation, apparently lost in thought.
"Think about that website you created, okay? That website will last forever, do you understand? That website is echoing through cyberspace. It's one of the nine billion names of God."
"Sufferin' succotash."
You mean its been 7 years to the day since I've been laid???? wait....n/m
via the way back machine
Is their sense of humor:
"What's next from Google? It's hard to say. We don't talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of our chief competitive advantages is surprise. And then there's innovation, and an almost fanatical devotion to our users."
I didn't expect that kind of comment in a corporate history.
Was anyone else surprised when their google moon turned to cheese when zoomed all the way in?
They had Inktomy for a while, too, but I believe that Yahoo used Altavista for years.
From Google History:
"our chief competitive advantages is surprise. And then there's innovation, and an almost fanatical devotion to our users."
Monty Python:
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
-emphasis added.
Hmmm....
Why cann't they just let ME decide which version I want to watch, the ones with all the new features or the one "customized" for the country i happen to connect from.
Two words: Localised Ads.
"It has even made its way into language as a common word."
I use the word "ReGOOGLEtate" to describe what people do when they ignorantly spout (copy/paste) information they've found on the Internet through a quick Google search.
It's fun to lambast those who inadvertantly use Onion articles to back their political/social views.
This word needs further defining, and a Wikipedia entry.
Parent claims google is rigging search results, mod parent up please.
jesus is teh kewl. he had m4d sk1llz.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
...the good old days...*sob*
For now, I find withdrawal therapy through dancingmad's sig. She's hawt. ;)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Check this out: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Gz2WfTaMWTYJ:w ww.google.com/support/bin/answer.py%3Fanswer%3D486 6%26topic%3D367+google+birthday&hl=en
Wonder whats up with that...
Heh, my "conirm you're not a script" image is "axioms." How fitting.
...in eleven years there will be a bunch of happy nerds celebrating that Google is then 'legal'...
*sigh*
That's correct, the number Seven represents perfections/completeness. The devil's number comes from this as well (666) as it is 3 times short of perfection.
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I googled quickly and found an article that explains it fairly well:
http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/youth/bibleg
It is interesting that you say PNG is typically smaller; in my experience, if the image has fewer than 256 colors, the GIF will be smaller. Some GIF writers don't compress the image to avoid the patent, this may be why you find PNGs to be smaller.
Another advantage of GIFs is that the code to read and write a GIF is quite a bit simpler.
Also, GIF animation is practical.
Qxe4
Monty Python:
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
This is an Insightful quote. I had thought Google was just doing a lame attempt to copy Apple Computer.
Tag lost or not installed.
There was much rejoicing several years ago when Google purchased the Usenet archives once made available in the 1990's at deja.com/dejanews.com, and finally made these archives available once more, so this is sort of looking a gift horse in the mouth. But it did bug me just a day or two ago (and it's far from the first time I've seen this) when I read a Usenet post saying the poster wanted to sell a [large, expensive valuable widget], and was there an appropriate Google group to post such a for-sale message to? I counted to ten (in decimal), tried to calm down, then wrote a scathing message explaining the differences between Google 's Usenet archive/web interface and Usenet newsgroups. I finally deleted the scathing explanation, and just said "Yes, there's an appropriate Usenet newsgroup in which to sell your [large, expensive valuable widget], it's ... .marketplace." I haven't checked but I'm sure the poster somehow figured out how to get there.
I said all that to demonstrate how Google has made Usenet newsgroups look like Google owns them. AOL apparently did this when they connected to Usenet in 1993, but earlier this year AOL dropped Usenet access (I'd like to think October 1993 is immiment, but it doesn't look that way*).
But Google went further, you can "make your own Google Group" but if you do this it isn't a newsgroup (from Usenet's perspective, this is actually a Good Thing), it's a special group like a mailing list, accessible only through "Google Groups." The interface looks a little different, but I've seen search results that return results from these "groups" as well as from Usenet posts (but not recently, maybe they already changed it because of complaints). It's annoying, dilutes the usefulness of Google's Usenet archives, and misleads people about what Usenet is.
* For you young farts, this is a reference to "endless september" or "forever september" or whatever it was called when Usenet was overwhelmed with AOL newbies who had no net.manners. I only started on Usenet in 1996, so I'm just a newbie myself, and I've only read about the problem (surely I didn't contribute to it myself...).
Tag lost or not installed.
Just as a simple note, this particular problem can be solved by avoiding things like the One And Only True King James Authorized Verion of the Bible You'll Ever Read Period, Damnit, and heading over to something like the ESV or the NASB. What's really neat is the keyed NASB with the Strong's Greek/Hebrew dictionary in the back. It makes your Bible big enough to kill someone with, but it's astoundingly useful.
Just a note.
Isn't online redundant?
Well, what if you don't want it to bloat up the output of ls? :P
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.