In the US, the big three are Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (in that order). I think Yahoo is around 20% and Microsoft around 10% (very rough estimates, don't quote me). After that, it's mostly bit players (perhaps with the exception of Ask). I'm not sure what the current numbers are but here is a TechCrunch article from June that has more specific figures:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/comscore-may-search-data-google-yahoo-up-microsoft-slides/
Market share varies a lot by country, though, so don't assume a similar breakdown worldwide.
They may believe in statistics, but some of their representatives have a pretty poor grasp of mathematics. They left a handout on the windshield of my car once, which said that most people only use only 10% of their mental potential and that they could teach me to use all of mine (or maybe just more). I was bored and decided to call their 800 number. I told the woman who answered that I was very interested but need more information. I asked for examples of people who had achieved more than 10% of their mental potential. She named various people in Hollywood. I said, "No offense, but Hollywood isn't really a brain trust. Can you give me examples of famous scientists or writers? You know, people who might be considered intellectuals." She couldn't come up with something immediately. I then said I was worried that my mental potential was small to begin with. "What if 100% of my mental potential is only 10% of someone else's?" She said reassuringly, "Our mental potential is infite." At that point, I had her, and I knew it. I smiled to myself and asked, "But what is 10% of infinite mental potential?" She said, "That's a good question. I'm not sure. Maybe you should buy the book."
Oceania includes Micronesia (e.g., Guam), Melanesia (e.g., Papua New Guinea), Polynesia (e.g., Hawai'i), and Australasia (e.g., New Zealand). It's mostly made up of island nations.
In theory, the distinction is clear-cut ("a pidgin becomes a creole when it is acquired as a native language"), but in reality things are much more murky. What makes it tricky is determining what exactly it means for a something to be a native language. In multilingual situations, where children are being raised exposed to multiple languages simultaneously, it's hard to say. There is extensive discussion of this in the literature on pidgin and creole languages, which is actually quite large. In fact, there's an entire journal dedicated to the topic, The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. So I don't think it's really that straightforward in the final analysis.
The term 'pidgin' doesn't just refer to the Pacific pidgin languages (e.g., Bislama and Tok Pisin), but also to those spoken elsewhere (e.g., in the Caribbean).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
There is a useful distinction to be made between a human and a person. Not all humans are persons (arguably someone in a persistent vegetative state) and not all persons are necessarily human (the chimp case, possibly aliens, someday androids, etc.).
As usual, no one bothers to read the article that is linked to. You'll notice that its publication date is March 21st. So the original article isn't an April Fool's Day joke.
This should be modded up. I think that anyone who thinks the boundaries between disciplines is clear-cut (in theory or practice) is naive and misguided, and maybe even stupid.
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Everyone likes to root for the biggest fish in the pond. Everyone likes to root for the winner, and Bill Gates is undoubtedly a winner.
In America, this is probably true, but not necessarily in the rest of the world. In Australia, for example, if you get too high and mighty, people are inclined to cut you down to size. It's called the "Tall Poppy Syndrome":
Regardless of how you feel about MS and its attempts at spin control, let's not loose sight of the really important thing here---OOXML is a bad standard. Its many flaws are well documented. Try any of these links to find out about some of them:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
As a linguist, the pathetic language encoding (which ignores the ISO standard) is particularly galling:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/004065.html
And what does New Guinea have to do with the subject either? America was hugely involved there, just for the record. Just think of the campagin on Bougainville or New Britain.
It's a sad commentary on the state of the American news media that The Daily Show keeps being held to journalistic standards. Jon Stewart and the rest of the regulars on the show aren't journalists, nor do they claim to be. They're comedians. If the news coverage provided by the show compares favorably to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox, that doesn't say good things for the mainstream news outlets.
Google will realize tax writeoffs for the whole thing, a one-time tax credit (or perhaps they will find a way to make the tax credit apply at a lower amount over multiple years), and above and beyond that they will see significantly reduced site power bills.
Get rid of your own dictator first before you tell others to do so.
This is ridiculous hyperbole. You can argue about what defines a dictator, but one thing that we can probably all agree on is that they don't have (or, more precisely, don't respect) term limits. Bush is subject to term limits and will be gone as of the next election. Therefore...
Why does everyone keep bringing up extradition? Has there been any legal maneuvering whatsoever in terms of extraditing someone from Spamhaus over this? I havne't seen anything indicating that the courts are even considering extradition. Let's not run amock with slipper slope arguments. Next people will be worrying about the Spamhaus staff being sent to Guantanamo.
Yeah, the knee-jerk reaction meter is off the scales on this one. I'm surprised at how little interest there is in the process of getting yourself removed from the spamhaus blacklist. Surely there have been cases of false positives on the blacklist. How often does that happen? And how is it corrected? Is there a well-documented process? Can anyone point to some informative URLs?
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In the US, the big three are Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (in that order). I think Yahoo is around 20% and Microsoft around 10% (very rough estimates, don't quote me). After that, it's mostly bit players (perhaps with the exception of Ask). I'm not sure what the current numbers are but here is a TechCrunch article from June that has more specific figures: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/comscore-may-search-data-google-yahoo-up-microsoft-slides/
Market share varies a lot by country, though, so don't assume a similar breakdown worldwide.
There is some discussion of this issue here: http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/ and also here: http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2007/06/21/powerset-to-launch-front-end-on-ruby
Google has a large share of the search market, but it doesn't have all of it--i.e., there are viable alternatives: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=21 56431
And FYI, it's no longer Ask Jeeves. It's just Ask.
They may believe in statistics, but some of their representatives have a pretty poor grasp of mathematics. They left a handout on the windshield of my car once, which said that most people only use only 10% of their mental potential and that they could teach me to use all of mine (or maybe just more). I was bored and decided to call their 800 number. I told the woman who answered that I was very interested but need more information. I asked for examples of people who had achieved more than 10% of their mental potential. She named various people in Hollywood. I said, "No offense, but Hollywood isn't really a brain trust. Can you give me examples of famous scientists or writers? You know, people who might be considered intellectuals." She couldn't come up with something immediately. I then said I was worried that my mental potential was small to begin with. "What if 100% of my mental potential is only 10% of someone else's?" She said reassuringly, "Our mental potential is infite." At that point, I had her, and I knew it. I smiled to myself and asked, "But what is 10% of infinite mental potential?" She said, "That's a good question. I'm not sure. Maybe you should buy the book."
Oceania includes Micronesia (e.g., Guam), Melanesia (e.g., Papua New Guinea), Polynesia (e.g., Hawai'i), and Australasia (e.g., New Zealand). It's mostly made up of island nations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
In theory, the distinction is clear-cut ("a pidgin becomes a creole when it is acquired as a native language"), but in reality things are much more murky. What makes it tricky is determining what exactly it means for a something to be a native language. In multilingual situations, where children are being raised exposed to multiple languages simultaneously, it's hard to say. There is extensive discussion of this in the literature on pidgin and creole languages, which is actually quite large. In fact, there's an entire journal dedicated to the topic, The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. So I don't think it's really that straightforward in the final analysis.
The term 'pidgin' doesn't just refer to the Pacific pidgin languages (e.g., Bislama and Tok Pisin), but also to those spoken elsewhere (e.g., in the Caribbean). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
There is a useful distinction to be made between a human and a person. Not all humans are persons (arguably someone in a persistent vegetative state) and not all persons are necessarily human (the chimp case, possibly aliens, someday androids, etc.).
Mea culpa.
As usual, no one bothers to read the article that is linked to. You'll notice that its publication date is March 21st. So the original article isn't an April Fool's Day joke.
This should be modded up. I think that anyone who thinks the boundaries between disciplines is clear-cut (in theory or practice) is naive and misguided, and maybe even stupid.
In America, this is probably true, but not necessarily in the rest of the world. In Australia, for example, if you get too high and mighty, people are inclined to cut you down to size. It's called the "Tall Poppy Syndrome":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndromeRegardless of how you feel about MS and its attempts at spin control, let's not loose sight of the really important thing here---OOXML is a bad standard. Its many flaws are well documented. Try any of these links to find out about some of them: http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
As a linguist, the pathetic language encoding (which ignores the ISO standard) is particularly galling:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/004065.html
And what does New Guinea have to do with the subject either? America was hugely involved there, just for the record. Just think of the campagin on Bougainville or New Britain.
Ok, great. What are "essential liberties" then?
It's a sad commentary on the state of the American news media that The Daily Show keeps being held to journalistic standards. Jon Stewart and the rest of the regulars on the show aren't journalists, nor do they claim to be. They're comedians. If the news coverage provided by the show compares favorably to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox, that doesn't say good things for the mainstream news outlets.
I think it's the fact that the pissing match is taking place on YouTube that makes it worthy of Slashdot interest.
I wonder how this one compares to its O'Reilly equivalent: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mongrelpdf/
Thanks for the great link. Very interesting stuff. Definitely post that to every OLPC thread.
Google will realize tax writeoffs for the whole thing, a one-time tax credit (or perhaps they will find a way to make the tax credit apply at a lower amount over multiple years), and above and beyond that they will see significantly reduced site power bills.
I wonder what impact Prop 87 will have on this. Perhaps this is part of the reason it is being strongly supported by Larry Page: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/cGet rid of your own dictator first before you tell others to do so. This is ridiculous hyperbole. You can argue about what defines a dictator, but one thing that we can probably all agree on is that they don't have (or, more precisely, don't respect) term limits. Bush is subject to term limits and will be gone as of the next election. Therefore...
What then would North Korea be?
This ruling may be relevant to the issue of Apple trying to gain control over the term 'podcasting'...
Why does everyone keep bringing up extradition? Has there been any legal maneuvering whatsoever in terms of extraditing someone from Spamhaus over this? I havne't seen anything indicating that the courts are even considering extradition. Let's not run amock with slipper slope arguments. Next people will be worrying about the Spamhaus staff being sent to Guantanamo.
Yeah, the knee-jerk reaction meter is off the scales on this one. I'm surprised at how little interest there is in the process of getting yourself removed from the spamhaus blacklist. Surely there have been cases of false positives on the blacklist. How often does that happen? And how is it corrected? Is there a well-documented process? Can anyone point to some informative URLs?