I will bet you a vast majority of the hits are my.yahoo.com portal traffic, not search.
You will lose your bet:
43.1% mail.yahoo.com
10.5% search.yahoo.com
8.6% yahoo.com
3.0% news.yahoo.com
2.4% 360.yahoo.com
You're right that it's main part is not search, anyway. But the presence they get from their mail service probably helps them to get a larger audience for their search, too.
It requires a dedicated telescope at 500 AU for each observed target, so we definitely need good pre-screened candidates. On a bright side, we might see them in some detail in less than 200-300 years.
Hmm... Let me see... Historical interest... Or better chance of survival for life as we know it... Interest... Or life... Argh, I hate tough choices like that!
In all seriousness, we can build colonies first, and analyze historical evidence later. It's not as if we couldn't tell ancient material from current life here on Earth.
Acer and Asus are doing great. MSI Wind is also nice. I'm only slightly disappointed to see all those netbooks still requiring a fan for cooling, and still achieving about 2.5 - 3 hours of battery life.
I could settle for a much slower processor, if that would mean a cool, slim and silent machine that would also run for 8 hours on battery.
I mean really, isn't it basically a reader / typewriter? If some websites may get slow, so be it.
I think there is a market for two varieties of netbooks: "long play, cool" ones, and "high power, hot" ones.
So, what if the enemy sets up a very fast rotating, super-cooled mirror? Could that work, in theory? Well, of course, that would make a really cumbersome shield, but still...
If I could tell NASA what missions to run (one can dream, right?), I would indeed ask them to do a quick search for possible local life. Mostly to make sure there is no such thing, before sending up the spores.
I think spreading life to other planets, in any possible form, would be the most exciting mission, and the greatest achievement for the humanity.
Are you sure the original image had true colors? I didn't check out Opportunity hardware, but usually those get combined from several oddly-colored filters, anyway. So, that compression could be a part of the process to get closer to natural colors.
However, your normalized image looks very Earth-like, and can start a very nice conspiracy theory thread.
So, to bootstrap Freenet adoption, we need to invent some nice-sounding excuse for those casual pirates. Something that would sound like a "killer app" for Freenet.
- Hey, you're running Freenet, you must be a filthy pedophile!
- Calm down, I'm just using it for [safer banking / private chat / business talk / foreign news]
What would be good legitimate candidates for that list? What kind of legitimate content / communication
should really enjoy the advantages of Freenet once it becomes popular?
Many people in this thread keep praising privileges restriction (be it UNIX user management, IE7 sandboxing, virtual machines, or anything else) as the ultimate solution to desktop security.
While this can reduce the chance of being "totally r00ted", you can still get "pwned" pretty badly. As long as you use your sandboxed browser daily, and have any kind of permanent storage for bookmarks / cache / saved files / etc, you still risk to become a botnet zombie, spam machine, DDOS node, pr0n/warez share, whatever. Who cares if that all works under restricted privileges.
So, by all means, manage your privileges, but beware the fake safety feeling that gives you.
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Alexa just shows the domain.
Not really: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com
I will bet you a vast majority of the hits are my.yahoo.com portal traffic, not search.
You will lose your bet:
43.1% mail.yahoo.com
10.5% search.yahoo.com
8.6% yahoo.com
3.0% news.yahoo.com
2.4% 360.yahoo.com
You're right that it's main part is not search, anyway. But the presence they get from their mail service probably helps them to get a larger audience for their search, too.
2+2=11 in base 3.
In binary, where 4 is written as 100, "2" is not a digit, so there's no confusion.
Anyway, finding the common base would probably be an easy part of human-alien communications.
This absolutely has to enter the meme hall of fame, along with "I find your ideas intriguing...", "You keep using that word..." and the like.
Please use this on every occasion.
and this is the wonder that's keeping the roads apart
i carry street view (i carry it in my heart)
(go figure)
Does it run Debian? Would make it even more useful.
This paper from 1979 suggests that we could use our star for a lens:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/205/4411/1133
It requires a dedicated telescope at 500 AU for each observed target, so we definitely need good pre-screened candidates. On a bright side, we might see them in some detail in less than 200-300 years.
0. Year of Linux on the desktop!
by Geoffrey James: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
I wish more programming books were as beautiful, entertaining, insightful and concise as this one.
Wake me up when Obama starts posting +5 Insightful comments on Slashdot.
It is generally a bad idea to play a smartass in front of a cop on duty.
In a friendly debate with a moderately drunk chick in the bar, that may be appropriate.
Hmm... Let me see... Historical interest... Or better chance of survival for life as we know it... Interest... Or life... Argh, I hate tough choices like that!
In all seriousness, we can build colonies first, and analyze historical evidence later. It's not as if we couldn't tell ancient material from current life here on Earth.
Try Eugene Goostman for a slightly more casual chat. I think Ultra Hal team focuses on learning algorithms, rather than smooth talking.
Acer and Asus are doing great. MSI Wind is also nice. I'm only slightly disappointed to see all those netbooks still requiring a fan for cooling, and still achieving about 2.5 - 3 hours of battery life.
I could settle for a much slower processor, if that would mean a cool, slim and silent machine that would also run for 8 hours on battery.
I mean really, isn't it basically a reader / typewriter? If some websites may get slow, so be it.
I think there is a market for two varieties of netbooks: "long play, cool" ones, and "high power, hot" ones.
This development can potentially allow us to observe the outside world in new and unusual ways, possibly beyond restoring the common smell sense.
Aside from Futurama jokes, imagine being able to literally smell a good or bad sample in data processing, etc.
At SETI research lab: "Look Joe, this is a funny-smelling star system, if I ever saw one!"
So, what if the enemy sets up a very fast rotating, super-cooled mirror? Could that work, in theory? Well, of course, that would make a really cumbersome shield, but still...
If I could tell NASA what missions to run (one can dream, right?), I would indeed ask them to do a quick search for possible local life. Mostly to make sure there is no such thing, before sending up the spores.
I think spreading life to other planets, in any possible form, would be the most exciting mission, and the greatest achievement for the humanity.
Are you sure the original image had true colors? I didn't check out Opportunity hardware, but usually those get combined from several oddly-colored filters, anyway. So, that compression could be a part of the process to get closer to natural colors.
However, your normalized image looks very Earth-like, and can start a very nice conspiracy theory thread.
Oh, KDE is Qt... Yeah, then Motif makes 3. I don't think a lot of people would count Mono for that purpose.
Sorry for writing the nonsense above, and for replying to my own post.
My first thoughts were GTK, KDE and Qt - but that's just me...
...behind those restrictions? Do you also need a permission to measure your weight, or to look in the mirror?
So, Wikipedia is the new Library of Congress!
So, to bootstrap Freenet adoption, we need to invent some nice-sounding excuse for those casual pirates. Something that would sound like a "killer app" for Freenet.
- Hey, you're running Freenet, you must be a filthy pedophile!
- Calm down, I'm just using it for [safer banking / private chat / business talk / foreign news]
What would be good legitimate candidates for that list? What kind of legitimate content / communication should really enjoy the advantages of Freenet once it becomes popular?
Many people in this thread keep praising privileges restriction (be it UNIX user management, IE7 sandboxing, virtual machines, or anything else) as the ultimate solution to desktop security.
While this can reduce the chance of being "totally r00ted", you can still get "pwned" pretty badly. As long as you use your sandboxed browser daily, and have any kind of permanent storage for bookmarks / cache / saved files / etc, you still risk to become a botnet zombie, spam machine, DDOS node, pr0n/warez share, whatever. Who cares if that all works under restricted privileges.
So, by all means, manage your privileges, but beware the fake safety feeling that gives you.
I heard it hated to be observed.
This research has been covered at least twice on Slashdot recently:
Researchers Design Microchip Ten Times More Efficient
Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip
Maybe those should be included as related articles in the summary, or something...