> What's even funnier is that you believe that tripe.
His point wasn't that Google said it and that we should believe it. His point was that/this/ is what Google put into its SEC filings, instead of maximising profit first and foremost. Hence it is/this/ that Google is legally obliged to follow, and not maximising profit at the cost of all else.
> I agree entirely. Google is an advertising firm. > It's sole purpose is to collect data about us and show us > more advertising. That's evil from the ground up.
Advertising is not inherently evil, believe it or not it actually can be useful. And the more info they have about you, the more then can deliver something that would be of interest to you, rather than just trying to convince you to get something that you do not need. People pay to be able to sell things, people pay to be able to buy things. If things can be made easier for both, then great.
Sure, you don't have to sell to those you don't want to. But if you instrument a product such that people cannot live without it, then threaten to take it away unless you have your way with the government, this is now in a completely different (under)realm.
When you sell ad space alongside your applications, end-user loyalty is money.
Exactly! So unlike other companies their business models require them to be considerate and helpful. Combine this with not actually taking money from customers at any point, and you have an environment that shareholders cannot rightfully destroy (never mind that most shareholders have non-voting shares anyway).
Like a secret society you have to know how to pick up on their clues.
>Rasmussen said he is unaware of one 'but there are 3000 people that work for Google'.
He is wrong about the latter, so he must be wrong about the former as well! Maybe he discovered something that he wasn't supposed to, so he left some mental hints lodged deep in his brain to remind himself of what he is aware of.
It is used for humorous effect, symbolising the backspace key. No browser now will actually put in "^H", but this sometimes happens on the command-line.
So instead of typing "this bug, er I mean feature" he types in "bu^H^H feature" to make it seem like he wanted to say bug, but instead said feature.
1) Search for "Google" in "Mountain View, California". (This will probably happen for most searches, but this is the one I tried). 2) Notice how it adds "United States" to the place name. 3) Click search, again 4) Notice how it fails to give anything, unless you remove "United States" from the name.
I had the same issue. I searched for my address in "London, Ontario" and it decided to give me a map in florida, and change "London, Ontario" to "Winter Garden, FL" in the search box!
The fact that Canada's fleet uses ethanol is vacuously true, sort of like saying that all green elephants like to play bridge. I've never seen a green elephant, and I'd sure like to see this "fleet" of ours.;-)
It is of course semantics: do you define a chicken egg to be an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg containing a chicken. Clarify this and it becomes trivial.
Next step, I need to find a tree falling in the woods.
By all means, get: SideTrack
It is a driver for the trackpad which allows it to do all sorts of cool things (scroll wheel, tapping corners, etc). I have been using it for months and could not be without it.
>Like hiding applications so that you are never sure
> if they are running or not? That doesn't make sense, it's fucking stupid.
Any running app has an icon in the dock. Hiding an application hides all of the windows on the screen (hides from expose as well), plus the minimised windows in the dock. Does not sound like much, but amazingly useful for dealing with clutter.
Sure it looks interesting, but I really do not see the point of swiching from LaTeX: the de facto standard for any math write-up. MathML: written for computers. TeX: written for humans to write.
That said, I have been feeling that TeX is a bit outdated as a system, but then I discovered TeXmacs. This is a fully wysiwyg editor for TeX, where you type in TeX code and see the formatting instead of the code. I have switched to using it, and would definitely recommend it to others
It is a common trick to pad/contract data blocks to the same length. That way, if you all of a sudden want block number 17382 you can do some simple arithmetic instead of reading it.
I was wondering why they modified the filenames (although it is more like "f04/08 Styx Mr Roboto"
Plus Mathematica has some truly amazing features that few people seem to be fluent in. Even things like instead of just defining what the function f[x] equals, you can define what an arbitrary pattern equals, like redefine Sin[x]+y/z. Too much to say here, but I have always been amazed.
For creating a new playlist, aside from using the highly advertised shortcut or the plus button, you can just drag a selection of files into the playlist column. This usually works for mac programs.
Out of curiosity, are you on OS X? If not, the key point here is that on OS X windows are organised much differently. cmd-tab switches between applications (so between, say, terminal and emacs), while cmd-` switches between windows belonging to that application. Through in exposé and you are set. This is one of the things I miss when using other systems: being able to switch between all things in one app, to all things in another app.
That said, your situation would probably make good use of virtual desktops, but it would take me personally a while to get used to. My point was that my tasks are split nicely between applications. Mail in Mail, web in Safari, math in Mathematica, planning in iCal, programming in xcode/terminal, reading papers in preview.
I tried this, but frankly, even being a long-time Linux user before moving to mac, I just find this feature confusing. I am probably not in the right mind-set, but I like to switch cleanly between my applications. I do not see the need of having, say, my pdfs on one desktop, web browser on another, mail on another, programming on another. I would tend to have one or two applications per desktop, and I can already switch between these simply with cmd-tab and hide others with alt-cmd-h, etc.
> Why is everyone so concerned with searching for files these days? I honestly don't understand why database like file systems are major features of both Mac OS X and Longhorn. I guess it makes sense if you are talking about someone who is computer illiterate, someone who saves their files wherever the default location is and has no concept of file systems.
Actually, this is one thing I am really looking forward to. I have been downloading a lot of research papers from arXiv, and I now find myself with well over a hundred files all named like 0903118.pdf. Even if I rename and resort by author and title, the key info I want to search for is really in the abstracts. I am creating a perl script to download the abstracts, reorganise the files/directories, and allow me to search, but spotlight seems much more useful.
Jogging can damage it? Then I should be more careful, as not only do I run with it (though mostly to classes), I regularly play squash or work out while jammin' to "War and Peace" from audible.com. Not to mention the many times I've dropped it (note: get a carrying case!).
It should not be difficult, however, to refute their claim. Considering the accelerations present when jogging with it, compared to the internal velocities of the hard drive, it really seems inconsequential. Though don't take my word for it.
It's hard to believe reason 4 when they say "experts say that it's impossible to damage the drive in this way, but I'm not buying that". I think they're called experts and not arm-chair hypthesisers for a reason.
Note also that few of the alternatives satisfy more than 1 of the conditions given.
Also, they don't seem to know that if the battery dies you can get it replaced.
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No, I believe he is saying that despite the horrors of the holocaust, most of the German population was just like you and me.
> > it says they won't be evil.
/this/ is what Google put into its SEC filings, instead of maximising profit first and foremost. Hence it is /this/ that Google is legally obliged to follow, and not maximising profit at the cost of all else.
> HAHA
> What's even funnier is that you believe that tripe.
His point wasn't that Google said it and that we should believe it. His point was that
> I agree entirely. Google is an advertising firm.
> It's sole purpose is to collect data about us and show us
> more advertising. That's evil from the ground up.
Advertising is not inherently evil, believe it or not it actually can be useful. And the more info they have about you, the more then can deliver something that would be of interest to you, rather than just trying to convince you to get something that you do not need. People pay to be able to sell things, people pay to be able to buy things. If things can be made easier for both, then great.
Sure, you don't have to sell to those you don't want to. But if you instrument a product such that people cannot live without it, then threaten to take it away unless you have your way with the government, this is now in a completely different (under)realm.
Exactly! So unlike other companies their business models require them to be considerate and helpful. Combine this with not actually taking money from customers at any point, and you have an environment that shareholders cannot rightfully destroy (never mind that most shareholders have non-voting shares anyway).
>Rasmussen said he is unaware of one 'but there are 3000 people that work for Google'.
He is wrong about the latter, so he must be wrong about the former as well! Maybe he discovered something that he wasn't supposed to, so he left some mental hints lodged deep in his brain to remind himself of what he is aware of.
See, Google is much cooler than Microsoft.
It is used for humorous effect, symbolising the backspace key. No browser now will actually put in "^H", but this sometimes happens on the command-line.
So instead of typing "this bug, er I mean feature" he types in "bu^H^H feature" to make it seem like he wanted to say bug, but instead said feature.
It's funny, laugh.
1) Search for "Google" in "Mountain View, California". (This will probably happen for most searches, but this is the one I tried). 2) Notice how it adds "United States" to the place name.
3) Click search, again
4) Notice how it fails to give anything, unless you remove "United States" from the name.
Microsoft sure is helpful; helpful to death!
I had the same issue. I searched for my address in "London, Ontario" and it decided to give me a map in florida, and change "London, Ontario" to "Winter Garden, FL" in the search box!
There is a place where you get money for guessing something like this. It's called the stock market
But assuming P=NP, since it's pretty easy to verify a ticket to be correct, it should be just as easy to find the winning ticket to begin with!
Ergo, I only need to prove P=NP, then I'll be a millionaire.
The fact that Canada's fleet uses ethanol is vacuously true, sort of like saying that all green elephants like to play bridge. I've never seen a green elephant, and I'd sure like to see this "fleet" of ours. ;-)
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
It is of course semantics: do you define a chicken egg to be an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg containing a chicken. Clarify this and it becomes trivial.
Next step, I need to find a tree falling in the woods.
By all means, get: SideTrack
It is a driver for the trackpad which allows it to do all sorts of cool things (scroll wheel, tapping corners, etc). I have been using it for months and could not be without it.
> if they are running or not? That doesn't make sense, it's fucking stupid.
Any running app has an icon in the dock. Hiding an application hides all of the windows on the screen (hides from expose as well), plus the minimised windows in the dock. Does not sound like much, but amazingly useful for dealing with clutter.
That said, I have been feeling that TeX is a bit outdated as a system, but then I discovered TeXmacs. This is a fully wysiwyg editor for TeX, where you type in TeX code and see the formatting instead of the code. I have switched to using it, and would definitely recommend it to others
Except for the fact that (as many believe) the Nazis started the fire to strengthen their position.
Actually, I could see this.
It is a common trick to pad/contract data blocks to the same length. That way, if you all of a sudden want block number 17382 you can do some simple arithmetic instead of reading it.
I was wondering why they modified the filenames (although it is more like "f04/08 Styx Mr Roboto"
For creating a new playlist, aside from using the highly advertised shortcut or the plus button, you can just drag a selection of files into the playlist column. This usually works for mac programs.
Out of curiosity, are you on OS X?
If not, the key point here is that on OS X windows are organised much differently. cmd-tab switches between applications (so between, say, terminal and emacs), while cmd-` switches between windows belonging to that application. Through in exposé and you are set. This is one of the things I miss when using other systems: being able to switch between all things in one app, to all things in another app.
That said, your situation would probably make good use of virtual desktops, but it would take me personally a while to get used to. My point was that my tasks are split nicely between applications. Mail in Mail, web in Safari, math in Mathematica, planning in iCal, programming in xcode/terminal, reading papers in preview.
I tried this, but frankly, even being a long-time Linux user before moving to mac, I just find this feature confusing. I am probably not in the right mind-set, but I like to switch cleanly between my applications. I do not see the need of having, say, my pdfs on one desktop, web browser on another, mail on another, programming on another. I would tend to have one or two applications per desktop, and I can already switch between these simply with cmd-tab and hide others with alt-cmd-h, etc.
Actually, this is one thing I am really looking forward to. I have been downloading a lot of research papers from arXiv, and I now find myself with well over a hundred files all named like 0903118.pdf. Even if I rename and resort by author and title, the key info I want to search for is really in the abstracts. I am creating a perl script to download the abstracts, reorganise the files/directories, and allow me to search, but spotlight seems much more useful.
Jogging can damage it? Then I should be more careful, as not only do I run with it (though mostly to classes), I regularly play squash or work out while jammin' to "War and Peace" from audible.com. Not to mention the many times I've dropped it (note: get a carrying case!).
It should not be difficult, however, to refute their claim. Considering the accelerations present when jogging with it, compared to the internal velocities of the hard drive, it really seems inconsequential. Though don't take my word for it.
It's hard to believe reason 4 when they say "experts say that it's impossible to damage the drive in this way, but I'm not buying that". I think they're called experts and not arm-chair hypthesisers for a reason.
Note also that few of the alternatives satisfy more than 1 of the conditions given.
Also, they don't seem to know that if the battery dies you can get it replaced.