Other Google users will not be affected by the individual tweaking: instead it will be stored along with the users' own personal information for the next time they search for this word or phrase, so users are required to log in to avail of it Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of voting one site a better result than another? Why bother ranking sites when bookmarking the results would achieve the same result (as well as be independent of a login). Actually, a plugin that bookmarks the top ~15 search results automatically might be a useful FF plugin...
Back on topic: Why not allow a "standard search" or "community-moderated search" toggle switch? The only downside to a community-modded search that I can see in goatse being voted up by hoards of trolls.
1. Good idea, but PC prices would skyrocket for a while.
2. Even better.
3. Offering other OSs should still be the choice of the OEMs.
4. Disallowing proprietary formats could be going too far. Force compatibility with ODF, sure. But people will stop using.doc (or.docx now) after a few upgrades kill their old files while their ODF files work fine. Provided, of course, MS doesn't sabotage the conversions and compatibility on purpose.
In my town there was a plot of land valued > $1,000,000. The city took a small slice for $80,000 to build a bus stop in a position that cuts off access to the rest of the lot, making it virtually worthless.
If you build it, they will come...
Providing speeds like this will allow service providers to expand into new frontiers with internet connectivity. Real-time access to a remote drive comes to mind, as well as entirely hi-def video streams.
Those monopolies only exist because they have the government's blessing. You can bet that they will be broken up shortly if the legislators find out that they could be getting their pr0n faster. Unless maybe those monopolies give enough bribe money that the legislator can pay for a 2.5Gb connection without thinking twice.
We can combat this new technique by right-click-open-in-new-tab all links and making sure the page title is OK. Even if they change it, they cannot always make it relevant very quickly.
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Mod parent funny.
You've obviously never heard of Vuze (which features commercial distribution), Linux, or OpenOffice torrents
Touché.
I doubt even the majority of /.ers could keep a government hacker out of their systems.
That's not what it was designed for.
Then don't vote on the results.
/. should implement something similar for the Firehose. ;-)
Back on topic: Why not allow a "standard search" or "community-moderated search" toggle switch? The only downside to a community-modded search that I can see in goatse being voted up by hoards of trolls.
Should have gone with Uranus.
1. Good idea, but PC prices would skyrocket for a while. .doc (or .docx now) after a few upgrades kill their old files while their ODF files work fine. Provided, of course, MS doesn't sabotage the conversions and compatibility on purpose.
2. Even better. 3. Offering other OSs should still be the choice of the OEMs. 4. Disallowing proprietary formats could be going too far. Force compatibility with ODF, sure. But people will stop using
Has Vista been mentioned in TV-based news? I don't have an antenna.
XP-15% Vista-3% Windows 7-15%
In my town there was a plot of land valued > $1,000,000. The city took a small slice for $80,000 to build a bus stop in a position that cuts off access to the rest of the lot, making it virtually worthless.
Other posters are saying 100km/s at the termination shock.
Yes
It's been mentioned dozens of times already.
A small pack of high-grade explosives up against your ear is not the same thing as a battery in your shirt pocket.
Good luck getting Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, etc. to do the same thing.
You forgot the social security number, fingerprints, and your computer's password/IP address.
If you build it, they will come...
Providing speeds like this will allow service providers to expand into new frontiers with internet connectivity. Real-time access to a remote drive comes to mind, as well as entirely hi-def video streams.
This could be a good incentive for a us to finally get out of our parent's basements and into apartments of our own.
Those monopolies only exist because they have the government's blessing. You can bet that they will be broken up shortly if the legislators find out that they could be getting their pr0n faster. Unless maybe those monopolies give enough bribe money that the legislator can pay for a 2.5Gb connection without thinking twice.
But it is less reliable. And the highest speeds offered by Clearwire in my area is the lowest speed offered by Comcast.
I had intended to click the "No Karma Bonus"
We can combat this new technique by right-click-open-in-new-tab all links and making sure the page title is OK. Even if they change it, they cannot always make it relevant very quickly.