I post "Hey, look, they ARE evil!" because I genuinely believe they are (to the same degree all corporations are).
Google didn't get surprised. They knew what they were getting into. They're not idiots.
Either way, it's fucking trivial to sort through 150,000 entries. Hell, it's not like they're dealing with paper submissions that have to be prepped, scanned, OCR'd and QA'd first.
If they want to go through each submission by hand, 10 unpaid interns and 3 weeks will get you to the top 100. 1 week with the big boys will get you to the top 10.
At this point, Google can post the top 10 ideas, with periodic updates as it's narrowed down, discussed with the submitters, and ultimately decided over the next month.
Bottom line: Google made promises. Google didn't deliver. The negative press now won't even come close to the positive press they got when they announced the project.
Net gain for Google, and they don't actually ever have to do anything.
IANAL but 150,000 submissions is by no means extraordinary.
What's Google gonna say? We can't go through those that fast? We can't index them and group them into categories (alternative energy, healthcare reform, spam submissions from princes in nigeria) for faster review?
99% of all suggestions will be spam/retarded/impossible. I guarantee you the bulk of it is about health care and trains. Neither can be done without thousands of times more money AND government involvement.
150,000 ain't SHIT. Fuck, doing it manually, that's 1000 man-hours for interns to narrow it down to the top 100.
"Hire" (they'll work for free) 10 interns and it'll be done before you can get the shitty idea for an online poll and the even shittier idea to involve Colbert.
Just as being dragged down by the leeching poor/illegal/foreign/corporate/middle demanding endless welfare/"rights"/aid/power/unions is failure.
Gotta love these any-winged nutjobs.
ALL POLITICIANS (except Ron Paul) are in fact, pure fucking evil. They've got you fucking morons so tied up in a fake wrestling match (with commentary by Wolf "the Beard" Blitzer) that you fail to notice that they are fucking you in the ass and you are paying for the privilege.
I see I said "takes a little more than having the "best" search algorithm," instead of saying "takes a little more than having the best search," or "take a little more than being the best at searching,".
Thus, I failed to get the point across. I retract the dipshit comment. (Though you're still obviously a fanboy who fails to see the bad side of google.)
I'm saying even if Google has a better search engine, that's not enough to make me use their services.
I'll run from Google to any reasonably competent competitor in order to maintain some semblance of not having every fucking detail of my life fed into the gaping maw of Google.
I don't use Gmail (though I have one). I used Google checkout ONCE for the $10 discount. I will never use Google Docs. I have a GPS, so I don't need Google maps. I block ads.
What the fuck, people? Evading taxes is evading taxes. All I did was reference a fucking Simpsons quote.
Evade. Avoid. Both are words. Both have meanings. The meanings are extremely similar, and the words are often synonyms.
I don't give a fucking shit about the crime of "tax evasion" vs legal acts to avoid paying taxes.
Regardless of what is a crime and what is legal, evading/avoiding taxes is tax evasion/avoision. It doesn't matter how you do it or whether or not it's legal.
Seeking ways to not pay taxes, or to pay less taxes, can be referred to as evading or avoiding taxes.
What the fuck are you talking about? I was quoting Kent Brockman, from the Simpsons.
Either way: Evading taxes - via loopholes or not, legal or not - is evasion by the very definition of the word.
"Please do not invoke Godwin's law"? I had no intention to, since I wasn't arguing anything. But since you're an idiot, I'll invoke it just to piss you off. Asking someone to not use an argument is like admitting you can't argue against it.
I am invoking Godwin's law. As you can see Godwin's law clearly proves my Simpsons quote to be correct, even though it is just a joke from a cartoon about a news anchor arguing with the crew/producer about his choice of words/what he will and will not say/read.
Even if you just had a numeric keypad, you could easily select your area.
Just map the keypad to a 3x3 grid. Each time you hit a button it zooms and centers on that square of the grid. Want more precise? Hit it again. Done? Hit enter.
With a touch screen you've got your fat finger on a tiny screen with horrible precision, and when you go to touch, your finger blocks your view. If you need to adjust, you've got to touch it again, and you'll find that fine adjustments via touch screen are extremely difficult, since you've got to remove your finger to see what you actually did.
But let's not pretend that there aren't tons of easy things that can be done in software to improve the usability of buttons OR touchscreens.
Buttons are blindly operable but touchscreens are not. Certain applications may or may not be blindly operable, but so what?
My claims are backed with fact. Your claims are all anecdotal. I can show you hundreds of ways to get XP, but whenever I show you how to get XP, you ignore it and claim that it's still impossible to get XP.
You mention Staples now? Fine, go to their fucking site and look shit up. They offer netbooks from HP, Dell, Acer, Samsung, Asus, and Msi that have XP!
Any moron can say "I want XP" at any store and they will either be given XP (possibly at an added cost), or will be told some bullshit like the kind you're spreading: "We can't sell XP anymore", "XP doesn't run in this laptop because of the drivers", etc.
When they're told they can't XP, they simply go elsewhere.
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The volume that the actual sperm cells add to the ejaculate is trvial.
There is no reduction in the output.
It's a gradual increase, obviously.
6 months to return to normal (pre-injection) levels.
For most men, that's probably a month or two to return to potent levels.
Not anymore.
They don't need a scalpel.
Anesthetic.
Wait.
Grab the pipe.
Inject hot resin.
Grab the other pipe.
Inject hot resin.
60% of the time, it works every time.
"It isn't hard to tell if sperm are alive or dead using a simple optical microscope immediately after ejaculation."
Most of /. needs to use the optical microscope before ejaculation.
Considering the one child per family policy, it IS surprising.
You can control click taskbar buttons in XP?
FUCK. Mind blown!
I post "Hey, look, they ARE evil!" because I genuinely believe they are (to the same degree all corporations are).
Google didn't get surprised. They knew what they were getting into. They're not idiots.
Either way, it's fucking trivial to sort through 150,000 entries. Hell, it's not like they're dealing with paper submissions that have to be prepped, scanned, OCR'd and QA'd first.
If they want to go through each submission by hand, 10 unpaid interns and 3 weeks will get you to the top 100. 1 week with the big boys will get you to the top 10.
At this point, Google can post the top 10 ideas, with periodic updates as it's narrowed down, discussed with the submitters, and ultimately decided over the next month.
So how much did they buy YOU for?
Bottom line:
Google made promises.
Google didn't deliver.
The negative press now won't even come close to the positive press they got when they announced the project.
Net gain for Google, and they don't actually ever have to do anything.
IANAL but 150,000 submissions is by no means extraordinary.
What's Google gonna say? We can't go through those that fast? We can't index them and group them into categories (alternative energy, healthcare reform, spam submissions from princes in nigeria) for faster review?
99% of all suggestions will be spam/retarded/impossible.
I guarantee you the bulk of it is about health care and trains. Neither can be done without thousands of times more money AND government involvement.
150,000 ain't SHIT.
Fuck, doing it manually, that's 1000 man-hours for interns to narrow it down to the top 100.
"Hire" (they'll work for free) 10 interns and it'll be done before you can get the shitty idea for an online poll and the even shittier idea to involve Colbert.
Yes, it is failure.
Just as being dragged down by the leeching poor/illegal/foreign/corporate/middle demanding endless welfare/"rights"/aid/power/unions is failure.
Gotta love these any-winged nutjobs.
ALL POLITICIANS (except Ron Paul) are in fact, pure fucking evil. They've got you fucking morons so tied up in a fake wrestling match (with commentary by Wolf "the Beard" Blitzer) that you fail to notice that they are fucking you in the ass and you are paying for the privilege.
I see I said "takes a little more than having the "best" search algorithm," instead of saying "takes a little more than having the best search," or "take a little more than being the best at searching,".
Thus, I failed to get the point across.
I retract the dipshit comment. (Though you're still obviously a fanboy who fails to see the bad side of google.)
No, dipshit.
I'm saying even if Google has a better search engine, that's not enough to make me use their services.
I'll run from Google to any reasonably competent competitor in order to maintain some semblance of not having every fucking detail of my life fed into the gaping maw of Google.
I don't use Gmail (though I have one).
I used Google checkout ONCE for the $10 discount.
I will never use Google Docs.
I have a GPS, so I don't need Google maps.
I block ads.
The only thing I really use Google for is search.
You realize that getting my traffic takes a little more than having the "best" search algorithm, right?
Oh wait, you don't.
Why the fuck would you link to wikipedia for the definition of a word?
I'd like to point out that XP (or prior) has every single one of those features except for:
Restoring window positions after a cascade/similar.
Progress bar on icons (I've seen it in some apps, though).
Aren't Linux people the same people that bitch when MS DOES bundle apps with the OS?
Why use a driver installer?
Unpack that installer and just grab the actual drivers.
Man, you missed out on the opportunity for a First Plop! (First as in Presidential - First Lady, First Dog, etc., as well as being the first post.)
What the fuck, people?
Evading taxes is evading taxes.
All I did was reference a fucking Simpsons quote.
Evade. Avoid. Both are words. Both have meanings. The meanings are extremely similar, and the words are often synonyms.
I don't give a fucking shit about the crime of "tax evasion" vs legal acts to avoid paying taxes.
Regardless of what is a crime and what is legal, evading/avoiding taxes is tax evasion/avoision. It doesn't matter how you do it or whether or not it's legal.
Seeking ways to not pay taxes, or to pay less taxes, can be referred to as evading or avoiding taxes.
FUCK.
Evading taxes is evading taxes.
Legal or not, you are evading taxes.
Whether or not you are charged with the crime of tax evasion is a separate issue.
It is clear to anyone with half a brain that evading taxes is evading taxes.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I was quoting Kent Brockman, from the Simpsons.
Either way:
Evading taxes - via loopholes or not, legal or not - is evasion by the very definition of the word.
"Please do not invoke Godwin's law"? I had no intention to, since I wasn't arguing anything. But since you're an idiot, I'll invoke it just to piss you off. Asking someone to not use an argument is like admitting you can't argue against it.
I am invoking Godwin's law.
As you can see Godwin's law clearly proves my Simpsons quote to be correct, even though it is just a joke from a cartoon about a news anchor arguing with the crew/producer about his choice of words/what he will and will not say/read.
I don't say evasion, I say avoision!
Even if you just had a numeric keypad, you could easily select your area.
Just map the keypad to a 3x3 grid.
Each time you hit a button it zooms and centers on that square of the grid. Want more precise? Hit it again. Done? Hit enter.
With a touch screen you've got your fat finger on a tiny screen with horrible precision, and when you go to touch, your finger blocks your view. If you need to adjust, you've got to touch it again, and you'll find that fine adjustments via touch screen are extremely difficult, since you've got to remove your finger to see what you actually did.
But let's not pretend that there aren't tons of easy things that can be done in software to improve the usability of buttons OR touchscreens.
Buttons are blindly operable but touchscreens are not. Certain applications may or may not be blindly operable, but so what?
My claims are backed with fact. Your claims are all anecdotal.
I can show you hundreds of ways to get XP, but whenever I show you how to get XP, you ignore it and claim that it's still impossible to get XP.
You mention Staples now?
Fine, go to their fucking site and look shit up.
They offer netbooks from HP, Dell, Acer, Samsung, Asus, and Msi that have XP!
Any moron can say "I want XP" at any store and they will either be given XP (possibly at an added cost), or will be told some bullshit like the kind you're spreading: "We can't sell XP anymore", "XP doesn't run in this laptop because of the drivers", etc.
When they're told they can't XP, they simply go elsewhere.