That's simply not true. The ancient Greeks knew the earth wasn't flat. Hell, Eratosthenes (of Sieve fame) calculated the circumference of the earth to within a few percent, and that was around 200 BC.
However, we do seem to be approaching the point where 97% of people will believe any kind of shit you tell them as long as they agree with your conclusions.
The GP said "At one time in history 97% of the world's scientists thought the world was flat.". The GP did not say when that time was.
You've been lucky. I've witnessed a retail version of windows XP be refused activation after a hardware change. Calling microsoft was unproductive.
I call bullshit. The only reasons a key is blacklisted from the installer (ISOs and retail discs get updated with new installers and key blacklists) or from the activation program are:
1) Key is fake. 2) Key is a volume/site license key that has been deactivated or has reached its maximum number of installations. 3) Key is a single-installation or limited-time key, such as a demo/beta/preview key, or an MSDN-AA key (cheap/free Windows through your school). 4) Key has seen an exorbitant amount of use and has been flagged as a pirated key. Typically these are the keys that pirates insert into the.nfo release notes, or keys that you can find via google when some idiot or some management software posts a public log that contains it.
Manually activating with a valid key (none of the above situation apply) is as simple as calling the number (24/7, toll free in every country that matters) and keying in the code it displays on screen. An automated system, or a live person, will then ask you how many PCs the copy of Windows is installed on, and you will say "1", and then they will give you a key to type into the box, and you're done.
You can reformat and change your hardware every fucking week if you want.
The main problem is that the SoC is difficult/impossible to buy in anything other than enormous quantities. Some of the Raspberry Pi people work at Broadcom, so they're in a slightly better negotiating position than everyone else.
What a joke.
"It's open source! But you need this chip, and you have to buy a billion of them! Not us, though, we're in cahoots, I mean, collaboration with Broadcom because we work there!"
The system on a chip isn't special. Any 3rd-world manufacturer can shit one out. Same goes for the RAM.
The only thing that makes it likely for the other site to be a scam is the fact that nobody gives a fucking shit about the Raspberry-Turd. This is the fucking $99 laptop for poor kids all over again. But nerds get excited every single time this shit comes up. OH LOOK, a little computer I can almost browse the web with. In a week it'll be stuck in a drawer somewhere entangled in a mass of Bucky Balls.
They have more than one data point. What they have is one data set.
Thank you and good day.
Since their model is designed to predict behavior, and it is based on past behavior of one individual, they have precisely one data point. The thing beind modeled is the pattern of time between killings. Nothing with the individual killings is being modeled.
User security ALWAYS boils down to 1 question: How do I know you are who you claim you are?
Passwords are the ONLY way to handle this.
Biometrics are fuzzy at best, and in the end, it's just a biometric scanner sending a piece of information (password) to the authenticating host. Hardware dongles, keyfobs, or whatever else you call them are the same fucking thing. It's just another piece of information fed into the authenticating host. Security "experts" like to claim that these things are not "something you know", but are "something you have". But that's utter horse shit. It's just something that is difficult to know without having something else. And it's something that is EASY to know when you have it, even if you aren't the person who is supposed to know it.
All of digital security, ever, boils down to a key sharing problem. You have to give someone a key when you first decide to trust them.
Passwords are the most secure thing in the world in theory, because they're stored only in your brain. Passwords are much less secure in practice because people forget them, right them down, fall victim to phising attacks and keyloggers, etc. and authenticators tend to do stupid shit like get hacked, keep shit around in plaintext with little or no salting, etc.
The only thing that needs to change about passwords is the mentality of users. Users need to realize that the trust has to be a two-way street. If you don't trust a site completely, you must assume they will spread your shit out or actively try to attack you.
USERS must take it upon themselves to: Never use the same password in multiple places (this includes encrypting other passwords with a password). Never write a password down. Never use stupid passwords based on words. Figure out how to deal with an OH SHIT moment where you've lost a password. Unfortunately, this violates the other requirement.
and i had a kenyan client who told me that when they went to atms to withdraw, they carried shotguns with it. go figure what goes about in corporate practices.
Look, it's unity100 being a moron again!
You're ignorance/racism is causing you to make up stories about Kenya. Your poor grammar is causing you to make up stories about ATMs armed with shotguns.
google wouldnt. but, people employed in google russia, definitely would. bribe or die ? anyone would choose bribe. that does not mean that google ireland is approving it. they end up approving it if they dont take action on it.
Look, it's unity100 being a moron again. "Google" is a corporation - an entity made up of many people, including its employees. When an employee does something wrong, Google does something wrong. Something viewed as wrong here doesn't get a pass because it happened somewhere else where that behavior is still wrong but is more common.
Google's burning villages and eating puppies? Well, it's Africa, I guess that's just their culture.
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Words don't get to change just because you want them to.
The slang "meaning" of santorum was deliberately conjured up to reference the person. I can't just say natasrevol is a slang for the dried crust of stagnant breast milk that forms on nipples.
Being a libertarian who would assert government power over reproductive rights is a bit hypocritical.
Ron Paul says it should be in the hands of the state. As does the Constitution.
Roe vs Wade was not about a right to choose, and it was not about a right to privacy. It was about the State being unable to produce admissable evidence to show that a person had an illegal abortion. Their evidence was inadmissable because the State was unable to show that their interest in preventing abortions was more important than the individual's interest in keeping their medical history private. The State couldn't get past the 4th Amendment issue.
People have incorrectly read the decision as a right to choose, or a right to privacy. It's just the 4th Amendment. If a state had a law against unnecessary abortions, and you tweeted about how you just got one because you didn't want to deal with another kid, you could absolutely be punished for it. Of course, it won't happen because it would be political suicide to bring such a case against someone for abortion. Even the most right-leaning states only go so far as to put restrictions in place with regards to minor status, and term/viability of the fetus, and there's always the escape clause for abortions that are deemed medically necessary.
In the absolute worst-case scenario, you'd have a state going after an individual for an abortion that was not medically necessary, but they'd have to prove it wasn't medically necessary, and we're back to Roe vs Wade and the 4th Amendment. Even if the federal Supreme Court was dumb enough to rule for the state, all it would do is trigger the biggest public movement since the 60s, ending in a specific Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
Even if Ron Paul wanted the federal government to end abortions, it just can't be done. It's an untouchable issue.
Becuase Florida didn't meet your arbitrary threshold of "figuratively all the votes need to be counted", you call their actions unconstitutional? Tell me where in the Constitution is states that all votes have to be counted, or that enough votes have to be counted to know the result with 100% certainty.
Elections have deadlines. I didn't vote in 2010, should I be able to vote now and have my vote counted? Elections have rules. If I wipe my ass with the ballot and run it through a shredder, should I expect someone to piece it together, clean it up, and try to read it?
Florida and its old people fucked up, plain and simple. The endless recounts were going to be the old "Best 2 out of 3, damn, 3 out of 5!, No! 4 out of 7! HAHA I WIN, GAME OVER!" bullshit. It doesn't matter who won by a hair when all the votes that you want to count were finally counted. It matters who won when the deadlines hit and all the valid, legible votes reasonably countable were counted.
Regardless, the only votes that matter for a Presidential election are those of the electoral college.
Of course, I'll take it a step further and say it still didn't matter who won. Just like it didn't matter in 2004 and 2008, and just like it won't matter this year. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
If you give an external drive to your grandma and expect her to keep it safe, the problem is you;-)
Leave with the drive after the install!
Man you're dumb. Put the cheapo/old hard drive in, clone the disk after initial setup, and then leave it in. Just unplug the power and data cables, but leave the drive in the case.
Shit broked? Open case, plug cables back in, clone good image to the drive with the busted image, unplug cables. If you're feeling nice because nana made you some cookies, you could first boot to the clean image and copy her documents over after doing a shitware scan on them.
The original Windows 7 upgrade iso/disc was horrible. License wise, you were 100% allowed to upgrade from XP. However, since there wasn't a software upgrade path, you needed to wipe the drive first. Windows 7 would then fail to active on your upgrade only license because "you didn't upgrade." The only way to fix it was to boot into recovery mode or from an alternate medium, and edit a registry entry from "this was a fresh install" to "this was an upgrade". And that even on Microsoft KB as the approved method of fixing the issue!
Luckily, they realized how terrible this was and started trusting the user that they own a previous version of Windows that they are upgrading.
It was very annoying jumping through those hoops. I'm glad my wife's PC is the only MS box in the house.
This is false. The first retail Windows 7 Upgrade disc had an installer that checked for a valid license (XP, Vista, 7) and let you proceed. With XP, the only option was to completely wipe the disk and do a cleam ("custom") installation.
If you wiped the disc yourself prior, the Windows 7 installer obviously wouldn't let you continue. If you had a blacklisted XP key, the Windows 7 installer obviously wouldn't let you continue. Such keys include fake keys, pirated keys, as well as keys that are single-installation only, such as keys released through the MSDN-AA program (cheap/free XP through your university).
If you let Windows 7 wipe the drive and install, it worked fine. If you fucked up in the middle and restarted (e.g. you didn't have your RAID drivers on hand, you had to go back into BIOS to set AHCI, you're retarded), you had to jump through hoops. The most common hoop, of course, was to install without the key and then either: 1) Reinstall on top of that with the key. 2) Do some registry / command line voodoo to reset the activation and input your key.
I do a daily, full-disk backup to an external drive, excluding *.bt! and the steamapps folder, as well as whatever defaults Acronis uses for temp files. Acronis writes out a full file every once every 2 weeks, and incremental files the rest of the time. It keeps the last 2 months of backups before wiping them out.
I have indeed used my backups to restore. It's as simple as sticking the disc in (easier than finding a blank USB drive, keeping one for Acronis, or trying to finagle it into UBCD), booting to it, selecting Acronis True Image, and then selecting Restore FROM External TO Internal, and waiting 20-40 minutes.
The only problem I have with Acronis is that it likes to name my backups oddly (Full Backup, Full Backup - 2,... Full Backup(1), Full Backup(1) - 2,...), and that it seems to adjust the scheduled time randomly by a few minutes. Though I think this may be some sort of security features, many virus scanners wobble their update and scan times as well.
As wood ages it decomposes, warps, etc., and the "tonal qualities" of a violin would do the same.
A well kept violin will not decompose or warp. As wood ages, it also hardens, which allows it to resonate more when played. Further, the type of varnish applied to the wood plays an integral role in its sound, and that too can improve with age. In fact many new instruments are made from wood that's hundreds of years old.
Furthermore, I'd take a factory machined and produced violin over a hand-made one from a master any day.
So... how long have you been playing violin exactly? I've been playing violin 15 years and have studied with plenty of people who've been playing for life-times longer. I've never met anyone who would choose to play a cheap factory made violin. Constructing a violin is an art, not a science. You can program a computer to create a violin, but in my experience I have never played a violin that came from a factory that was even comparable to a hand made instrument. And I threw in China because all the terrible factory machined violins I've ever played happen to be from that country.
There's no reason a violin should be "worth" millions of dollars simply due to age/brand/rarity.
Age/brand/rarity are the reasons why almost everything has worth in the first place. Worth is all about perception. If I had millions of dollars, you bet I'd give it to play the violin I saw Jascha Heifetz play in black and white when I was a child. Of course that experience would be worth $0 to you, but that doesn't mean I'm somehow "wrong" for wanting to pay that much.
Wood hardens because it dries out. It also shrinks (creating gaps) and warps (deforming the cavity) when it dries out. It creates an objectively worse form for tonal quality.
as a "SEO" expert (ie Matt Cuts knows my name) working for a big company no way would I our my colleagues ever suggest this - the risk is immense and if any one in our group of companies did this I would be lobbying the MD to have the marketing people involved fired.
Matt C should be at the next Google board meeting demanding someones head for this.
As an "SEO" expert, the world hates you because you are advertising scum and you do a job that any monkey could do if they just read the Google FAQ and properly set titles and meta tags.
Dude, Google didn't actually do anything. Read the article. Please.
Google contracted for certain advertising work to be done. The contractor contracted with an advertising agency to do the actual work. The ad agency drew up a specific plan (in the form of reports of what was to be done, where, when, how, etc.). The contractor reviewd the reports, approved, and forwarded them to Google, adding their own reports on the ad agency itself. Google reviewed the reports and sent an approval to the contractor. The contractor then sent their approval to the ad agency. The work was done and was delievered to the contractor (in the form of reports of what was done, where, when, how, etc.). The contractor reviewed the work and paid the advertising agency. They then delievered the work (the reports) to Google. Google reviewed the work and paid the contractor.
At no point in the process did Google, or the contractor, say "This is not what we want.". In fact, at every point possible they said "Yes, this is good and we will give you money for it.".
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That's simply not true. The ancient Greeks knew the earth wasn't flat. Hell, Eratosthenes (of Sieve fame) calculated the circumference of the earth to within a few percent, and that was around 200 BC.
However, we do seem to be approaching the point where 97% of people will believe any kind of shit you tell them as long as they agree with your conclusions.
The GP said "At one time in history 97% of the world's scientists thought the world was flat.".
The GP did not say when that time was.
Yeah, 'cause you're the absolute arbiter of what reasons are real or not, right. *rolls eyes*
Prove me wrong. Oh wait, you can't.
Bullshit reason - from people who will actually pirate the game anyway:
To take some sort of stand.
Real reason - from people who didn't care about the game until they heard about the DRM:
Because the pirated version is single player only.
Real reason - from the morons who enable this sort of shit:
I NEED MY STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
You've been lucky. I've witnessed a retail version of windows XP be refused activation after a hardware change. Calling microsoft was unproductive.
I call bullshit.
The only reasons a key is blacklisted from the installer (ISOs and retail discs get updated with new installers and key blacklists) or from the activation program are:
1) Key is fake. .nfo release notes, or keys that you can find via google when some idiot or some management software posts a public log that contains it.
2) Key is a volume/site license key that has been deactivated or has reached its maximum number of installations.
3) Key is a single-installation or limited-time key, such as a demo/beta/preview key, or an MSDN-AA key (cheap/free Windows through your school).
4) Key has seen an exorbitant amount of use and has been flagged as a pirated key. Typically these are the keys that pirates insert into the
Manually activating with a valid key (none of the above situation apply) is as simple as calling the number (24/7, toll free in every country that matters) and keying in the code it displays on screen. An automated system, or a live person, will then ask you how many PCs the copy of Windows is installed on, and you will say "1", and then they will give you a key to type into the box, and you're done.
You can reformat and change your hardware every fucking week if you want.
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Or you could learn some HTML so you could write “La Niña.” It's pretty easy to look this stuff up...
Why in the fuck would you use an HTML entity for a perfectly valid character?
It's SLASHDOT'S fault that anything unicode gets fucked to hell.
HTML entities are for ESCAPING special characters like < via < so they're interpreted and rendered as text and not code.
The main problem is that the SoC is difficult/impossible to buy in anything other than enormous quantities. Some of the Raspberry Pi people work at Broadcom, so they're in a slightly better negotiating position than everyone else.
What a joke.
"It's open source! But you need this chip, and you have to buy a billion of them! Not us, though, we're in cahoots, I mean, collaboration with Broadcom because we work there!"
The system on a chip isn't special. Any 3rd-world manufacturer can shit one out. Same goes for the RAM.
The only thing that makes it likely for the other site to be a scam is the fact that nobody gives a fucking shit about the Raspberry-Turd. This is the fucking $99 laptop for poor kids all over again. But nerds get excited every single time this shit comes up. OH LOOK, a little computer I can almost browse the web with. In a week it'll be stuck in a drawer somewhere entangled in a mass of Bucky Balls.
Good sir, allow me to nitpick.
They have more than one data point. What they have is one data set.
Thank you and good day.
Since their model is designed to predict behavior, and it is based on past behavior of one individual, they have precisely one data point.
The thing beind modeled is the pattern of time between killings. Nothing with the individual killings is being modeled.
User security ALWAYS boils down to 1 question: How do I know you are who you claim you are?
Passwords are the ONLY way to handle this.
Biometrics are fuzzy at best, and in the end, it's just a biometric scanner sending a piece of information (password) to the authenticating host.
Hardware dongles, keyfobs, or whatever else you call them are the same fucking thing. It's just another piece of information fed into the authenticating host.
Security "experts" like to claim that these things are not "something you know", but are "something you have". But that's utter horse shit. It's just something that is difficult to know without having something else. And it's something that is EASY to know when you have it, even if you aren't the person who is supposed to know it.
All of digital security, ever, boils down to a key sharing problem.
You have to give someone a key when you first decide to trust them.
Passwords are the most secure thing in the world in theory, because they're stored only in your brain.
Passwords are much less secure in practice because people forget them, right them down, fall victim to phising attacks and keyloggers, etc. and authenticators tend to do stupid shit like get hacked, keep shit around in plaintext with little or no salting, etc.
The only thing that needs to change about passwords is the mentality of users. Users need to realize that the trust has to be a two-way street. If you don't trust a site completely, you must assume they will spread your shit out or actively try to attack you.
USERS must take it upon themselves to:
Never use the same password in multiple places (this includes encrypting other passwords with a password).
Never write a password down.
Never use stupid passwords based on words.
Figure out how to deal with an OH SHIT moment where you've lost a password. Unfortunately, this violates the other requirement.
and i had a kenyan client who told me that when they went to atms to withdraw, they carried shotguns with it. go figure what goes about in corporate practices.
Look, it's unity100 being a moron again!
You're ignorance/racism is causing you to make up stories about Kenya.
Your poor grammar is causing you to make up stories about ATMs armed with shotguns.
google wouldnt. but, people employed in google russia, definitely would. bribe or die ? anyone would choose bribe. that does not mean that google ireland is approving it. they end up approving it if they dont take action on it.
Look, it's unity100 being a moron again.
"Google" is a corporation - an entity made up of many people, including its employees. When an employee does something wrong, Google does something wrong.
Something viewed as wrong here doesn't get a pass because it happened somewhere else where that behavior is still wrong but is more common.
Google's burning villages and eating puppies? Well, it's Africa, I guess that's just their culture.
Only on slashdot!
google's india offices have tried to sell them domain name and web hosting. so ?
Look, it's unity100 being a moron again.
RTFA.
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Try out a projector. It is easy to jump to a 120" screen. I think that the OP was correct in calling a 52" screen tiny.
I'd prefer a display that looks good.
Projection is shit compared to a direct display. Always will be.
Words don't get to change just because you want them to.
The slang "meaning" of santorum was deliberately conjured up to reference the person.
I can't just say natasrevol is a slang for the dried crust of stagnant breast milk that forms on nipples.
Being a libertarian who would assert government power over reproductive rights is a bit hypocritical.
Ron Paul says it should be in the hands of the state. As does the Constitution.
Roe vs Wade was not about a right to choose, and it was not about a right to privacy.
It was about the State being unable to produce admissable evidence to show that a person had an illegal abortion.
Their evidence was inadmissable because the State was unable to show that their interest in preventing abortions was more important than the individual's interest in keeping their medical history private. The State couldn't get past the 4th Amendment issue.
People have incorrectly read the decision as a right to choose, or a right to privacy. It's just the 4th Amendment. If a state had a law against unnecessary abortions, and you tweeted about how you just got one because you didn't want to deal with another kid, you could absolutely be punished for it. Of course, it won't happen because it would be political suicide to bring such a case against someone for abortion. Even the most right-leaning states only go so far as to put restrictions in place with regards to minor status, and term/viability of the fetus, and there's always the escape clause for abortions that are deemed medically necessary.
In the absolute worst-case scenario, you'd have a state going after an individual for an abortion that was not medically necessary, but they'd have to prove it wasn't medically necessary, and we're back to Roe vs Wade and the 4th Amendment. Even if the federal Supreme Court was dumb enough to rule for the state, all it would do is trigger the biggest public movement since the 60s, ending in a specific Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
Even if Ron Paul wanted the federal government to end abortions, it just can't be done. It's an untouchable issue.
Becuase Florida didn't meet your arbitrary threshold of "figuratively all the votes need to be counted", you call their actions unconstitutional? Tell me where in the Constitution is states that all votes have to be counted, or that enough votes have to be counted to know the result with 100% certainty.
Elections have deadlines. I didn't vote in 2010, should I be able to vote now and have my vote counted?
Elections have rules. If I wipe my ass with the ballot and run it through a shredder, should I expect someone to piece it together, clean it up, and try to read it?
Florida and its old people fucked up, plain and simple.
The endless recounts were going to be the old "Best 2 out of 3, damn, 3 out of 5!, No! 4 out of 7! HAHA I WIN, GAME OVER!" bullshit. It doesn't matter who won by a hair when all the votes that you want to count were finally counted. It matters who won when the deadlines hit and all the valid, legible votes reasonably countable were counted.
Regardless, the only votes that matter for a Presidential election are those of the electoral college.
Of course, I'll take it a step further and say it still didn't matter who won. Just like it didn't matter in 2004 and 2008, and just like it won't matter this year. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
If you give an external drive to your grandma and expect her to keep it safe, the problem is you ;-)
Leave with the drive after the install!
Man you're dumb.
Put the cheapo/old hard drive in, clone the disk after initial setup, and then leave it in.
Just unplug the power and data cables, but leave the drive in the case.
Shit broked? Open case, plug cables back in, clone good image to the drive with the busted image, unplug cables.
If you're feeling nice because nana made you some cookies, you could first boot to the clean image and copy her documents over after doing a shitware scan on them.
The original Windows 7 upgrade iso/disc was horrible. License wise, you were 100% allowed to upgrade from XP. However, since there wasn't a software upgrade path, you needed to wipe the drive first. Windows 7 would then fail to active on your upgrade only license because "you didn't upgrade." The only way to fix it was to boot into recovery mode or from an alternate medium, and edit a registry entry from "this was a fresh install" to "this was an upgrade". And that even on Microsoft KB as the approved method of fixing the issue!
Luckily, they realized how terrible this was and started trusting the user that they own a previous version of Windows that they are upgrading.
It was very annoying jumping through those hoops. I'm glad my wife's PC is the only MS box in the house.
This is false.
The first retail Windows 7 Upgrade disc had an installer that checked for a valid license (XP, Vista, 7) and let you proceed.
With XP, the only option was to completely wipe the disk and do a cleam ("custom") installation.
If you wiped the disc yourself prior, the Windows 7 installer obviously wouldn't let you continue.
If you had a blacklisted XP key, the Windows 7 installer obviously wouldn't let you continue. Such keys include fake keys, pirated keys, as well as keys that are single-installation only, such as keys released through the MSDN-AA program (cheap/free XP through your university).
If you let Windows 7 wipe the drive and install, it worked fine. If you fucked up in the middle and restarted (e.g. you didn't have your RAID drivers on hand, you had to go back into BIOS to set AHCI, you're retarded), you had to jump through hoops. The most common hoop, of course, was to install without the key and then either:
1) Reinstall on top of that with the key.
2) Do some registry / command line voodoo to reset the activation and input your key.
Microsoft's NTFS technology relies on cleanups to take place in the background, it appears to be a nightmare waiting to happen... :|
How so? Worst case scenario is that some recent fraction of your data is possibly partly duplicated.
Acronis works fine for me.
I do a daily, full-disk backup to an external drive, excluding *.bt! and the steamapps folder, as well as whatever defaults Acronis uses for temp files.
Acronis writes out a full file every once every 2 weeks, and incremental files the rest of the time.
It keeps the last 2 months of backups before wiping them out.
I have indeed used my backups to restore. It's as simple as sticking the disc in (easier than finding a blank USB drive, keeping one for Acronis, or trying to finagle it into UBCD), booting to it, selecting Acronis True Image, and then selecting Restore FROM External TO Internal, and waiting 20-40 minutes.
The only problem I have with Acronis is that it likes to name my backups oddly (Full Backup, Full Backup - 2, ... Full Backup(1), Full Backup(1) - 2, ...), and that it seems to adjust the scheduled time randomly by a few minutes. Though I think this may be some sort of security features, many virus scanners wobble their update and scan times as well.
As wood ages it decomposes, warps, etc., and the "tonal qualities" of a violin would do the same.
A well kept violin will not decompose or warp. As wood ages, it also hardens, which allows it to resonate more when played. Further, the type of varnish applied to the wood plays an integral role in its sound, and that too can improve with age. In fact many new instruments are made from wood that's hundreds of years old.
Furthermore, I'd take a factory machined and produced violin over a hand-made one from a master any day.
So... how long have you been playing violin exactly? I've been playing violin 15 years and have studied with plenty of people who've been playing for life-times longer. I've never met anyone who would choose to play a cheap factory made violin. Constructing a violin is an art, not a science. You can program a computer to create a violin, but in my experience I have never played a violin that came from a factory that was even comparable to a hand made instrument. And I threw in China because all the terrible factory machined violins I've ever played happen to be from that country.
There's no reason a violin should be "worth" millions of dollars simply due to age/brand/rarity.
Age/brand/rarity are the reasons why almost everything has worth in the first place. Worth is all about perception. If I had millions of dollars, you bet I'd give it to play the violin I saw Jascha Heifetz play in black and white when I was a child. Of course that experience would be worth $0 to you, but that doesn't mean I'm somehow "wrong" for wanting to pay that much.
Wood hardens because it dries out. It also shrinks (creating gaps) and warps (deforming the cavity) when it dries out.
It creates an objectively worse form for tonal quality.
I've never been able to figure out what that is, for Yahoo.
If you manage to figure it out, I'd wager they'd make you the CEO.
as a "SEO" expert (ie Matt Cuts knows my name) working for a big company no way would I our my colleagues ever suggest this - the risk is immense and if any one in our group of companies did this I would be lobbying the MD to have the marketing people involved fired.
Matt C should be at the next Google board meeting demanding someones head for this.
As an "SEO" expert, the world hates you because you are advertising scum and you do a job that any monkey could do if they just read the Google FAQ and properly set titles and meta tags.
Just FYI.
Dude, Google didn't actually do anything. Read the article. Please.
Google contracted for certain advertising work to be done.
The contractor contracted with an advertising agency to do the actual work.
The ad agency drew up a specific plan (in the form of reports of what was to be done, where, when, how, etc.).
The contractor reviewd the reports, approved, and forwarded them to Google, adding their own reports on the ad agency itself.
Google reviewed the reports and sent an approval to the contractor.
The contractor then sent their approval to the ad agency.
The work was done and was delievered to the contractor (in the form of reports of what was done, where, when, how, etc.).
The contractor reviewed the work and paid the advertising agency. They then delievered the work (the reports) to Google.
Google reviewed the work and paid the contractor.
At no point in the process did Google, or the contractor, say "This is not what we want.". In fact, at every point possible they said "Yes, this is good and we will give you money for it.".