I have one and it's actually incredibly effective on hard surfaces. It doesn't really rely on suction power, more on a rotating brush, although it does maximize its suction power by confining it to a squeegee-ish vacuum strip.
The thing that makes the Roomba totally kick-ass is this little spinning brush it has sticking out of the side. This brush, which is mounted to a flexible rubber piece, does edges and corners far better than any traditional vacuum. Because of this, the roomba can vacuum a room with wood or tile floors far more thoroughly than a person with a regular vacuum.
You are exactly right. Although the moron cited in the article apparently just noticed the crawler a few hours ago, it's been aggressively crawling the web for over a year.
R/RW is scratch-prone from the top. Commercially "pressed" media is scratch prone from the bottom, although it's way less prone than the aforementioned types. R/RW is made by gluing a metal sheet to a plastic disc, then a thin layer of laquer is sprayed over the top. Commercially pressed media is made by pressing the pattern into a plastic disc, spraying/sputtering it with a metallic substance to provide reflectivity, and then laquering the top. The laquer layer in this case is much thicker, though.
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No no no!!! modperl is horrendous! Use fastcgi!
Also, modperl exposes most of the apache API in perl. But you really want to avoid modperl. If for no other reason than the fact that a modperl apache child never returns any perl-allocated memory back to the OS. Your apache processes will, at a minimum, always be above the size of the largest amount of memory you have allocated in perl during that child's lifespan. This is a Bad Thing.
The best theory I have seen concerning the gbrowser.com domain had to do with Picasa being Windows-only and the presence of a similar Mac-only product named "GBrowser".
I always see the jokes about the futility of meeting girls online. Maybe this misperception that girls are not online is part of the problem! I know quite a few "hot" girls and they all use IM, email, and mobile phone text messaging EXTENSIVELY. Like way more than any geek I know.
They might as well start welding the hood shut on cars. I used to do most of my own maintenance on my previous vehicle... on my '03 Eclipse I can't even find the spark plugs!
I don't know if they made what I would consider a legal "error", I think someone just took a long shot and it didn't pan out. To me, it seemed obvious from the beginning that they were violating mechanical rights when they digitized the commercial CD collection. I always assumed that someone was hoping for the slim chance that the courts would rule digital duplication to somehow be different than other forms of copying.
Keep in mind that what you cite as "Microsoft search" is actually Inktomi's search (aka Yahoo). Microsoft's search is at beta.search.msn.com and it returns a good result set considering that it isn't rolled out yet. They have some smart people working on it.
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The person who originally wrote Turbo Pascal, and was also largely responsible for Delphi, led the C# design team.
The Streets are to rap what Chumbawumba is to rock.
No, it makes you fortunate!
What was done in Miami, FL, USA was to take old rail right-of-way and turn it into a bus-only road.
I have one and it's actually incredibly effective on hard surfaces. It doesn't really rely on suction power, more on a rotating brush, although it does maximize its suction power by confining it to a squeegee-ish vacuum strip.
The thing that makes the Roomba totally kick-ass is this little spinning brush it has sticking out of the side. This brush, which is mounted to a flexible rubber piece, does edges and corners far better than any traditional vacuum. Because of this, the roomba can vacuum a room with wood or tile floors far more thoroughly than a person with a regular vacuum.
You are exactly right. Although the moron cited in the article apparently just noticed the crawler a few hours ago, it's been aggressively crawling the web for over a year.
R/RW is scratch-prone from the top. Commercially "pressed" media is scratch prone from the bottom, although it's way less prone than the aforementioned types. R/RW is made by gluing a metal sheet to a plastic disc, then a thin layer of laquer is sprayed over the top. Commercially pressed media is made by pressing the pattern into a plastic disc, spraying/sputtering it with a metallic substance to provide reflectivity, and then laquering the top. The laquer layer in this case is much thicker, though.
No no no!!! modperl is horrendous! Use fastcgi!
Also, modperl exposes most of the apache API in perl. But you really want to avoid modperl. If for no other reason than the fact that a modperl apache child never returns any perl-allocated memory back to the OS. Your apache processes will, at a minimum, always be above the size of the largest amount of memory you have allocated in perl during that child's lifespan. This is a Bad Thing.
Hardly bizarre. Throughout history many people and groups have done things to others that they do not want done to them.
The best theory I have seen concerning the gbrowser.com domain had to do with Picasa being Windows-only and the presence of a similar Mac-only product named "GBrowser".
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You're joking, right? I'd argue that a televised freakshow is exactly what would glue most people to the tube.
I thought you could just disable "auto insert notification" under the CD-ROM device in the device manager?
At first I thought your sig was a goatse joke..
I always see the jokes about the futility of meeting girls online. Maybe this misperception that girls are not online is part of the problem! I know quite a few "hot" girls and they all use IM, email, and mobile phone text messaging EXTENSIVELY. Like way more than any geek I know.
Excellent post, I'd mod it up if I had points.
Man, I hate to break the news to you... but friendster and myspace are filled with totally hot chicks...
think "lets make out - kthxbye! 3". All style before substance.
These issues were already mentioned a year ago in the slashdot article Debug your Code, or Else!.
They might as well start welding the hood shut on cars. I used to do most of my own maintenance on my previous vehicle... on my '03 Eclipse I can't even find the spark plugs!
The setup looks more like a mediocre live performance setup than anything you might see in a studio recording environment.
I don't know if they made what I would consider a legal "error", I think someone just took a long shot and it didn't pan out. To me, it seemed obvious from the beginning that they were violating mechanical rights when they digitized the commercial CD collection. I always assumed that someone was hoping for the slim chance that the courts would rule digital duplication to somehow be different than other forms of copying.
"Performance rights", anyone????
That type of "reproduction" is "public peformance" and it definitely does need to be cleared!
Exactly!!! Mod up!!
Keep in mind that what you cite as "Microsoft search" is actually Inktomi's search (aka Yahoo). Microsoft's search is at beta.search.msn.com and it returns a good result set considering that it isn't rolled out yet. They have some smart people working on it.
I bought PFI originally to spider the siteindex so that all of the site's pages would be indexed. I doubt that I will renew.
And you're right - Yahoo is launching a separate, paid inclusion program aside from the Inktomi one. Of this I have no knowledge.
But with regards to Inktomi, I could deny the PFI spider today and I am positive my site's ranking would not be affected.