The right one is... "What percentage of first page results are not related at all, fake search engine bait, paid for, or otherwise completely irrelivant?"
Answer: 95% and increasing fast.
Google is becoming useless, as I have to use some very complicated queries to find even simple data. Rememeber the good old days when AltaVista was at 100%?
As an invention made of real atoms, you won't see one in real life until the patent EXPIRES. Then everyone will have one. Cars are designed half a decade before you see them.
Sorry, but that's how things work in the real world. It's nothing like the world of bits we all live in.
So, anyone out there know anyone that can accelerate this one?
The cool part of the internet is when you buy X million profiles, there are still an infinite number left to buy - you own 0%. They are not a scare resource. I assume this will be a new addition to Fox Kids, since myspace is mostly K-12.
This fad too shall pass, remember when dialup subscribers were worth something? MySpace is so last year, now it's all about the podcast.
Podcast: n, 1. The voice of the person who cannot understand why noone cared about their webpage about their cat, the blog about their cat, or the social network of cat lovers. 2. the precursor to Vodcast - the daily video on demand... about peoples cats.
You're forgetting about those giant hard drives, and the inefficient power supplies.
The CPU is just one part in the box. But you are right, in the last 2-3 years the CPU power use has gone up dramaticly, as Intel and AMD run out of other ways to make it go faster.
Eventually people will wake up to the relatively huge cost of electricity compared to the purchase of the machine.
As in, a machine from 10 years ago still uses just as many watts, if not more.
Now if I could get a good reliable "mom and pop" horsepower machine (i.e. almost none) that wasn't going to cost 2x its initial cost in electricity every year, forever, and had far less moving parts and NO FANS to replace every year at xmas...
Maybe the next Mac Mini will have high-rewrite flash (not that "mom and pop" users rewrite much if you turn off the swap and web cache) making a grand total of zero moving parts, that would be sweet.
Stop paying teachers 1/2 of what they would make in industry so you can get smart people to teach not just the ones that love teaching and would never do anything else? Or at least what a daycare worker makes?
Will never happen of course, so public education will always suck.
Historicly, this was always the case. Someone would patent something, then be stuck sitting on it until it expired because noone was willing to go near it, knowing that the licensing fees would eat all profits. Then soon after it expired, there was an explosion of interest in the product.
Nothing ever really changes.
Now days, with agressive cross-licensing, the delay is mostly removed, but now all the profits goto lawyers instead of the inventors - which have no control over the things they invented thanks to corps.
Of course, it's still pointless, since Asia ignores patents, and that's where all the growth is.
Correct, if you want to code, you want at most a masters. Even around here when we just need code written for research, ya hire an undergrad or a masters student.
People don't seem to understand that it's not a sequence, it's a graph. So get an undergrad degree, then there is a fork() in the road and you either go into doing XYZ (masters) OR you go into research/teaching XYZ (PhD).
The skillsets of a masters vs. a PhD are not overlapping, and almost mutually exclusive. You cannot do research on a weekly schedule with deadlines every quarter. And you cannot crank out the code when you're thinking deeply about things.
Yea, no joke. Once MS gets your emial they just wont go away. Took me almost 3 years to get them to bugger off. Many of my friends had the same problem. MS even used recruiters to bypass blacklists.
And when you draw a ton of attention to yourself for something almost noone can really defend without sounding like a moron, people want you far away from them.
Why do you think cops only ride a highway for a few miles. After a mile or two, they have hundreds of cars backed up behind them, and things start to get dangerous as tempers boil.
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RTFA... 1.5 Million.
Don't worry, you can read the article when they post the dup.
The right one is... "What percentage of first page results are not related at all, fake search engine bait, paid for, or otherwise completely irrelivant?"
Answer: 95% and increasing fast.
Google is becoming useless, as I have to use some very complicated queries to find even simple data. Rememeber the good old days when AltaVista was at 100%?
Seriously.
As an invention made of real atoms, you won't see one in real life until the patent EXPIRES. Then everyone will have one. Cars are designed half a decade before you see them.
Sorry, but that's how things work in the real world. It's nothing like the world of bits we all live in.
So, anyone out there know anyone that can accelerate this one?
The cool part of the internet is when you buy X million profiles, there are still an infinite number left to buy - you own 0%. They are not a scare resource. I assume this will be a new addition to Fox Kids, since myspace is mostly K-12.
This fad too shall pass, remember when dialup subscribers were worth something? MySpace is so last year, now it's all about the podcast.
Podcast: n, 1. The voice of the person who cannot understand why noone cared about their webpage about their cat, the blog about their cat, or the social network of cat lovers. 2. the precursor to Vodcast - the daily video on demand... about peoples cats.
You're forgetting about those giant hard drives, and the inefficient power supplies.
The CPU is just one part in the box. But you are right, in the last 2-3 years the CPU power use has gone up dramaticly, as Intel and AMD run out of other ways to make it go faster.
Eventually people will wake up to the relatively huge cost of electricity compared to the purchase of the machine.
But don't hold your breath...
As in, a machine from 10 years ago still uses just as many watts, if not more.
Now if I could get a good reliable "mom and pop" horsepower machine (i.e. almost none) that wasn't going to cost 2x its initial cost in electricity every year, forever, and had far less moving parts and NO FANS to replace every year at xmas...
Maybe the next Mac Mini will have high-rewrite flash (not that "mom and pop" users rewrite much if you turn off the swap and web cache) making a grand total of zero moving parts, that would be sweet.
Everything is direct to download now. In fact, everything is to download weeks before it's to anything else, or even released.
Oh wait, you mean you didn't have the new Harry Potter PDF 3 weeks ago? Well not me of course, torrents are all blocked here.
turnover is one of the biggest probems in the "outsource" zone, worse then in the valley during the boom.
Since you can only increase your wage with a new job, and inflation is going nuts... well... it's tunover central.
I'd be more worried about your job with this exciting new fromtier in combining child labor and outsourcing.
You know after reading this MBA's all over the world are wetting themselves in excitement. Cheep labor and all they demand is nap time.
Um, I get 6+ hours on my iBook easy...
Or did you mean while running Folding@home and playing a DVD? Well then yea, you will get 2 hours. It's not a server, it's a laptop.
Good grief.
The national avg is only 44k/yr for a teacher. Someone smart enough to teach should be EASILY able to do much better then that.
Stop paying teachers 1/2 of what they would make in industry so you can get smart people to teach not just the ones that love teaching and would never do anything else? Or at least what a daycare worker makes?
Will never happen of course, so public education will always suck.
Great, next you'll be posting about a round earth and evolution.
Homeland security is probably already on the way to your house.
Historicly, this was always the case. Someone would patent something, then be stuck sitting on it until it expired because noone was willing to go near it, knowing that the licensing fees would eat all profits. Then soon after it expired, there was an explosion of interest in the product.
Nothing ever really changes.
Now days, with agressive cross-licensing, the delay is mostly removed, but now all the profits goto lawyers instead of the inventors - which have no control over the things they invented thanks to corps.
Of course, it's still pointless, since Asia ignores patents, and that's where all the growth is.
Correct, if you want to code, you want at most a masters. Even around here when we just need code written for research, ya hire an undergrad or a masters student.
People don't seem to understand that it's not a sequence, it's a graph. So get an undergrad degree, then there is a fork() in the road and you either go into doing XYZ (masters) OR you go into research/teaching XYZ (PhD).
The skillsets of a masters vs. a PhD are not overlapping, and almost mutually exclusive. You cannot do research on a weekly schedule with deadlines every quarter. And you cannot crank out the code when you're thinking deeply about things.
Yea, no joke. Once MS gets your emial they just wont go away. Took me almost 3 years to get them to bugger off. Many of my friends had the same problem. MS even used recruiters to bypass blacklists.
When I click on a torrent it already automaticly launches and starts. The BT installer is mean and lean, no worries there.
Won't this just mean one more thing for Opera to have to write/maintain/patch themselves?
Still a cool move, just... why?
18 hours on this dupe not bad.
And when you draw a ton of attention to yourself for something almost noone can really defend without sounding like a moron, people want you far away from them.
Actually, if you only havea day to contribute, none of the real science based projects (Folding etc al) have work units that small.
Wow, why didn't we do that... oh wait, we did, years ago in fact. (everyone else thought of it too)
:)
GPU don't have real math... yet. So instead of Folding@home you get "tossed on the bed"@home. Which is unfortunately useless.
Stay tuned tho.
The voices, manerisms, etc are all WAY off...
Are any of the muppets not being pimped now? Miss piggie and kermit are selling pizza, ugg...
Why do you think cops only ride a highway for a few miles. After a mile or two, they have hundreds of cars backed up behind them, and things start to get dangerous as tempers boil.
Better then here, where instead of old people, I can't goto the mall because noone speaks ENGLISH there... but at least they arent old!
Numero uno con "cheese", grande Sprite....
OK, so not here exactly, 20 miles south of here where I lived for a while...
You mean an expansion game? Available for only $49.95 at your local store?
Some googling shows that this site may just take you off one list but add you to 100 others. Beware.