> If an ex-employee of google figures out a way to cut out all the > spam rubbish on the search results then I'm sure almost everyone > would switch overnight. It's that risk of 1 truly great idea being > missed that should worry google investors.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't going to happen. Sure, PageRank was a great idea that changed the search engine game, but even an idea that revolutionary (in search engine terms) wouldn't be enough to topple Google. Search is a balance of having the right algorithms AND having the huge infrastructure needed to run the algorithms over most of the web.
It seems to make a lot of sense for somebody with a really new and great idea about search to just sell it to one of the big three search engines. If it's an ex-Googler who left on good terms, great, go back to Google. If they left on bad terms, maybe Yahoo or Microsoft. It'd take years to develop it any other way, by which time it'd likely be too late.
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I think it's been pretty clearly established by now that Google is not very concerned about the short term money-making prospects of most of the products that it launches. In the long term, ads can be added to anything, and there is probably even some less-tangible value to running a free service that people like and use. Besides, this was probably a 20% project that a handful of people got together and created in their free time--there's little to lose even if it turns out to be a catastrophic failure.
There are so many threads lately where everybody whines about software companies that can't see anything other than the bottom line, even if it means getting sub-par workers to do a sub-par job. This is the other end of the spectrum, which is presumably what we'd all like to see more of. Why should you insist on questioning or worrying about what the short-term bottom line is? Given their earnings history, I'm plenty confident that Google is worrying about the money in the places it actually matters.
I have a 30" monitor and the desktop set to display icons at the smallest possible size (on OS X). It doesn't matter what background image I have b/c you can't see it behind my 15 columns of 45 items each.
but Spotlight is "part" of the OS thus is already running even when we don't want it to It's possible to disable spotlight (just google it). I did because it would spawn off an
mdimport process that took far too many resources far too often. After manually trying to kill the process a number of times, I got fed up and cut Spotlight out completely. A combination of Quicksilver and terminal's find do the job for me.
I will, however, install and try this Google Desktop Search, but no promises on how long it stays installed.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
I think the title is a bit misleading--this isn't making any tangible step towards driverless cars. The reason why getting computers to drive in the real world is so hard is that the real world is so complex and unpredictable. Things like developing an automated controller for a real car are not trivial tasks, and there are countless unpredictable situations that will only come up when you try to drive a real car in the real world.
This might be a fun idea, but I don't see it doing much towards removing the driver from the car. For that, I'm much more interested to see how the new Urban Challenge from DARPA turns out.
It seems like the first step should be trying to define the goal of the educational system. More thought would obviously need to be put into this, but for a high school level, the goals might be something along the lines of:
Get students to graduate.
Get students a good job after they graduate.
Get students into college.
Get students into good colleges.
Get students to graduate from college.
Once you have the goals defined, how about checking up on students a year or two down the road and base teacher performance/pay on that? E. g. each teacher that taught a student that graduates gets a small bonus. This would encourage teachers to invest in the long-term well-being of a student, rather than seeing
them as guinea pigs that need to fill in the right bubbles on test day.
Ah, sorry for directing that at you. Didn't mean to come across like that and i have now read TFA.
Well, so maybe they had dual 19 or 20s when he was there, but it's changed since then. Does anybody know if the MS and Yahoo info is still accurate?
Especially in a field like computer science, prizes are very good because they give researchers motivation to work with the same data set as everybody else. It is much easier to compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of algorithms and approaches when people work towards the same goal.
And there are other reasons for very *REAL* scientists to try to win prizes. Winning prizes gains prestige for their institution, and prestige for their institution helps provide the resources they need (students, grants) to do research.
It would be great if the world was as perfect and idealistic as it appears through your eyes.
I'm not sure about the rest, but the little button just pops up a little window with a link that you can right click and save as. No ads are on that page.
You can get the video downloader add-on to firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ to download the videos, then watch them on something like VLC. It won't make the quality better, but I find that the playback is smoother and you can make it true full screen (no browser window).
I wouldn't be surprised if most of Google's and Microsoft's computing power isn't used for (directly) user-facing products like Gmail. With the amount of data they are able to collect, there are many problems that couldn't even be touched without these massive data centers. More computers mean that engineers can use more intelligent algorithms, which contributes more to the bottom line than the number of gigabytes they offer people in their Gmail inboxes.
Not to mention that offering engineers the chance to work with such massive computing resources has to be great for recruiting.
I didn't RTFA, but wait... are these sites indexing content by the location where it was filmed?
If not, is there any real chance this will affect anybody's behavior? I could care less if a few random people from who-knows-where see me doing something moderately dumb. I doubt most people even will know that they are in one of these videos.
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> If an ex-employee of google figures out a way to cut out all the
> spam rubbish on the search results then I'm sure almost everyone
> would switch overnight. It's that risk of 1 truly great idea being
> missed that should worry google investors.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't going to happen. Sure, PageRank was a great idea that changed the search engine game, but even an idea that revolutionary (in search engine terms) wouldn't be enough to topple Google. Search is a balance of having the right algorithms AND having the huge infrastructure needed to run the algorithms over most of the web.
It seems to make a lot of sense for somebody with a really new and great idea about search to just sell it to one of the big three search engines. If it's an ex-Googler who left on good terms, great, go back to Google. If they left on bad terms, maybe Yahoo or Microsoft. It'd take years to develop it any other way, by which time it'd likely be too late.
Good start; however, it's much too late to ask for no jokes about the internet tubes.
what's your pet's name?
sell them on ebay for $10 and $20 respectively?
i like handbrake handbrake.m0k.org better than MTR
I think it's been pretty clearly established by now that Google is not very concerned about the short term money-making prospects of most of the products that it launches. In the long term, ads can be added to anything, and there is probably even some less-tangible value to running a free service that people like and use. Besides, this was probably a 20% project that a handful of people got together and created in their free time--there's little to lose even if it turns out to be a catastrophic failure.
There are so many threads lately where everybody whines about software companies that can't see anything other than the bottom line, even if it means getting sub-par workers to do a sub-par job. This is the other end of the spectrum, which is presumably what we'd all like to see more of. Why should you insist on questioning or worrying about what the short-term bottom line is? Given their earnings history, I'm plenty confident that Google is worrying about the money in the places it actually matters.
I have a 30" monitor and the desktop set to display icons at the smallest possible size (on OS X). It doesn't matter what background image I have b/c you can't see it behind my 15 columns of 45 items each.
And yes, muscle memory is enough in my case.
I will, however, install and try this Google Desktop Search, but no promises on how long it stays installed.
I'm facebook friends with her.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
I think the title is a bit misleading--this isn't making any tangible step towards driverless cars. The reason why getting computers to drive in the real world is so hard is that the real world is so complex and unpredictable. Things like developing an automated controller for a real car are not trivial tasks, and there are countless unpredictable situations that will only come up when you try to drive a real car in the real world.
This might be a fun idea, but I don't see it doing much towards removing the driver from the car. For that, I'm much more interested to see how the new Urban Challenge from DARPA turns out.
It seems like the first step should be trying to define the goal of the educational system. More thought would obviously need to be put into this, but for a high school level, the goals might be something along the lines of:
Once you have the goals defined, how about checking up on students a year or two down the road and base teacher performance/pay on that? E. g. each teacher that taught a student that graduates gets a small bonus. This would encourage teachers to invest in the long-term well-being of a student, rather than seeing them as guinea pigs that need to fill in the right bubbles on test day.
Ah, sorry for directing that at you. Didn't mean to come across like that and i have now read TFA. Well, so maybe they had dual 19 or 20s when he was there, but it's changed since then. Does anybody know if the MS and Yahoo info is still accurate?
Umm, last I checked, all Google engineers used dual 24" monitors. I'd check your information source.
And my gramma doesn't believe in shortcut keys.
Especially in a field like computer science, prizes are very good because they give researchers motivation to work with the same data set as everybody else. It is much easier to compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of algorithms and approaches when people work towards the same goal.
And there are other reasons for very *REAL* scientists to try to win prizes. Winning prizes gains prestige for their institution, and prestige for their institution helps provide the resources they need (students, grants) to do research.
It would be great if the world was as perfect and idealistic as it appears through your eyes.
They also have them in front of the urinals, i've heard.
I'm not sure about the rest, but the little button just pops up a little window with a link that you can right click and save as. No ads are on that page.
You can get the video downloader add-on to firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ to download the videos, then watch them on something like VLC. It won't make the quality better, but I find that the playback is smoother and you can make it true full screen (no browser window).
Not to mention that offering engineers the chance to work with such massive computing resources has to be great for recruiting.
I didn't RTFA, but wait... are these sites indexing content by the location where it was filmed? If not, is there any real chance this will affect anybody's behavior? I could care less if a few random people from who-knows-where see me doing something moderately dumb. I doubt most people even will know that they are in one of these videos.