Stop using fancy eye catching titles to your articles if they aren't relevant. Stick to the facts & key words.
Among other things, the Google's search algorithm is based on the text within the links to a page, the title of a page, the header text near the top of a page... News sites like to use titles that make you think "What is that article about". That is a horrible way to have Google link to your page with a high page rank.
For example, one of the top articles on CNN.com about Kennedy's death is titled "What if Chappaquiddick happened today?" No search engine will link to that article. The only key word there is Chappaquiddick.
Although Google doesn't directly provide information on how their algorithm works, there are many SEO sites that provide good enough information to tell them that they are doing a horrible job. The low level specifics are meaningless when you can't even get the basics right.
In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.
14 years ago I purchased a.com for my last name. I was able to get myFirstName@myLastName.com as my email address. How cool is that. Then the spam started (before good filtering). I was getting 1-2 GB of spam a day. My email file (BSD Unix) was open for write 24/7. I could never connect with my email client to download any emails. I'm not even sure if good filtering would have done any good. My hosting company couldn't figure out how to close the email account without closing the my user account (same name) that ran the web site. I basically had to telnet in and VI the file several times a week to delete everything to keep under my account's disk space quota. Also realize that domains still cost $70/year and hosting wasn't cheap back then either.
Spam can really cost someone money even if they aren't an ISP. I eventually had to change hosting companies just to kill that email address. To this day I can't use that address. Even with modern email filters, enough crap would get through to make it not worth using. I'm now using a gmail account.
the appeals court came down even harder on the guy for clearly abusing the law, pointing out that he was clearly a professional litigant, and not someone running a real ISP
The spammers are violating the law by spamming. Is protecting your right to not receive spam abusing the law?
Is there something illegal about being a professional litigant? I thought we called them lawyers.
I'm reminded of one airplane evacuation study where everyone exited the plane in a nice orderly fashion. Then they repeated the same study but paid the people based on the order they exited the plane. Let's just say the results were different. People climbing over seats pushing each other out of the way... Gov study in PDF
From the article, staying close to food earned the robot points. I think a better experiment would be a food collection algorithm. Pick up a piece of food from a pile of food and then return that food to the nest. Other robots could hang out at your nest and follow you back to the pile of food or see you going to your nest with food and assume that the food pile can be found by going in the exact opposite direction. Deception would involve not taking a direct route back to the food, walking backwards to confuse other robots...
I've done Genetic Programming experiments using collaboration between "robots" in food collection experiments, and it is a very interesting field. You can see some experiments here: http://www.lalena.com/ai/ant/ You can also run the program if you can run.NET 2.0 through your browser..
Since the site has been/.'ed and I can't RTFA, I have to ask... Is this really a Diesel Electric engine (as in locomotives) where the diesel engine is used solely to create electricity and is not connected to the drive train? Or is this actually a Diesel Hybrid?
LOL. Where I live, we think of Time Warner as the delivery mechanism, not the content provider: Time Warner Cable + Road Runner Internet + Intenet Phone.
I think the question of whether Time Warner's content can be owned by an internet provider was answered many many years ago.
Besides the domain tasters, does anyone actually know how to get their money back for a domain? I've used several registrars, and I've never seen a link or a mention in a FAQ that I could get my money back if I make a typo. I'm sure it's in there, but just buried under mountains of fine print. For $10, it's my guess that most people figure it was their mistake and pay again. Only the shady people know about the policy.
In many of these tests, they measure the power used to perform a certain task. Even if the Intel consumes 10% more power, if it gets done 25% faster then it consumes less power overall.
critics complain that the attacks aren't realistic
Step 1) Create tool to hack machine.
Step 2) Next election, reprogram the voting machine to play PacMan.
Step 3) Watch Cable News Networks spend weeks talking about the issue.
Step 4) Watch politicians scramble to pass something/anything to prove they care about this issue.
This will all work as long as you don't care about step 5.
Step 5) Go to jail. You do have to show ID to vote and if there is someone in line behind you at the booth, they will know real quick you hacked the machine.
We've all heard the joke about how to get on the front page of Digg.
Your article title should be "Top X {Reasons|Ways|Games...] To [Pick Up Girls|Make your own Fusion Reactor...]"
Yesterday on/. it was an article on 10 failed mouse designs. Today it is 10 things we don't know about the human body.
To post a real use for the keyboard...
Moving using the WASD keys in a FPS: Light touch means walk - Normal pressure means run. I would probably like this better than using a separate key to turn run on & off, but don't make me ever use more than normal pressure for running in a game.
You know what I have never understood. These companies complain about Google and other indexes showing part of a sentence of one of their stories, and then you go to the Wall Street Journal's web site and find buttons to share the story with Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, Del.icio.us, NewsVine, StumbleUpon, & Mixx. Do they want all of the WSJ links on Digg to point to a dead page? Obviously someone over there understands the power of other sites linking to your own.
Since no one reads the article and seems more interested in whining about diamond prices, here are the improvements that were achieved with the new thermal paste.
Idle - Max load
42c - 57c - Arctic Silver with a fresh application
39c - 54c - Arctic Silver with 2 week cure
29c - 38c - Diamond Grease with a fresh application
These numbers are almost too good to be true. A 19c drop under load with diamond paste? With my 4GHz OC'd system, I'm happy getting 38c when idling. If this data is true, it will really be revolutionary.
Your iPod explodes and Apple's settlement is a new iPod. To get the new iPod you have to sign an agreement allowing you to be sued if you tell anyone about the exploding iPod.
Why wouldn't this make them "act hysterically"?
You know Apple spent 10 times more than the cost of the iPod writing and delivering the legal papers that they were asked to sign. The new iPod should be a given. The legal documents would only make sense if there was added incentive to keep quiet.
I wouldn't be suprised if Apple spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year paying people to look for good & bad press about their company on sites like this one. $200 for hush money is a joke and an insult, and the family in this case knows it.
Plus, landing robots is getting easier. Look at the recent success with designs that use parachutes + inflatable balloons and have the lander bounce around until it stops. Can't do that with people. The KISS principle works here.
If someone sold you a stolen car, the police would come and take the car. They would not give you back your added components and you would not get any money back unless you could find and sue the person that sold it to you.
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If a network is not fully loaded, it's hard to know exactly how much demand is out there.
I think it was sponsored by "The Shack" trying to sell more HD radios. Only analog AM was taken out.
Stop using fancy eye catching titles to your articles if they aren't relevant. Stick to the facts & key words.
Among other things, the Google's search algorithm is based on the text within the links to a page, the title of a page, the header text near the top of a page... News sites like to use titles that make you think "What is that article about". That is a horrible way to have Google link to your page with a high page rank.
For example, one of the top articles on CNN.com about Kennedy's death is titled "What if Chappaquiddick happened today?" No search engine will link to that article. The only key word there is Chappaquiddick.
Although Google doesn't directly provide information on how their algorithm works, there are many SEO sites that provide good enough information to tell them that they are doing a horrible job. The low level specifics are meaningless when you can't even get the basics right.
Chavez promoted the use of traditional toys like the Yo-Yo
But the yo-yo is a weapon: Inventors of the yo-yo
In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.
14 years ago I purchased a .com for my last name. I was able to get myFirstName@myLastName.com as my email address. How cool is that. Then the spam started (before good filtering). I was getting 1-2 GB of spam a day. My email file (BSD Unix) was open for write 24/7. I could never connect with my email client to download any emails. I'm not even sure if good filtering would have done any good. My hosting company couldn't figure out how to close the email account without closing the my user account (same name) that ran the web site. I basically had to telnet in and VI the file several times a week to delete everything to keep under my account's disk space quota. Also realize that domains still cost $70/year and hosting wasn't cheap back then either.
Spam can really cost someone money even if they aren't an ISP. I eventually had to change hosting companies just to kill that email address. To this day I can't use that address. Even with modern email filters, enough crap would get through to make it not worth using. I'm now using a gmail account.
the appeals court came down even harder on the guy for clearly abusing the law, pointing out that he was clearly a professional litigant, and not someone running a real ISP
The spammers are violating the law by spamming. Is protecting your right to not receive spam abusing the law? Is there something illegal about being a professional litigant? I thought we called them lawyers.
Torrents updated to now support P2P over HTTP.
I'm reminded of one airplane evacuation study where everyone exited the plane in a nice orderly fashion. Then they repeated the same study but paid the people based on the order they exited the plane. Let's just say the results were different. People climbing over seats pushing each other out of the way... Gov study in PDF
From the article, staying close to food earned the robot points. I think a better experiment would be a food collection algorithm. Pick up a piece of food from a pile of food and then return that food to the nest. Other robots could hang out at your nest and follow you back to the pile of food or see you going to your nest with food and assume that the food pile can be found by going in the exact opposite direction. Deception would involve not taking a direct route back to the food, walking backwards to confuse other robots... .NET 2.0 through your browser..
I've done Genetic Programming experiments using collaboration between "robots" in food collection experiments, and it is a very interesting field. You can see some experiments here: http://www.lalena.com/ai/ant/ You can also run the program if you can run
Since the site has been /.'ed and I can't RTFA, I have to ask... Is this really a Diesel Electric engine (as in locomotives) where the diesel engine is used solely to create electricity and is not connected to the drive train? Or is this actually a Diesel Hybrid?
LOL. Where I live, we think of Time Warner as the delivery mechanism, not the content provider: Time Warner Cable + Road Runner Internet + Intenet Phone.
I think the question of whether Time Warner's content can be owned by an internet provider was answered many many years ago.
Besides the domain tasters, does anyone actually know how to get their money back for a domain? I've used several registrars, and I've never seen a link or a mention in a FAQ that I could get my money back if I make a typo. I'm sure it's in there, but just buried under mountains of fine print. For $10, it's my guess that most people figure it was their mistake and pay again. Only the shady people know about the policy.
In many of these tests, they measure the power used to perform a certain task. Even if the Intel consumes 10% more power, if it gets done 25% faster then it consumes less power overall.
critics complain that the attacks aren't realistic
Step 1) Create tool to hack machine.
Step 2) Next election, reprogram the voting machine to play PacMan.
Step 3) Watch Cable News Networks spend weeks talking about the issue.
Step 4) Watch politicians scramble to pass something/anything to prove they care about this issue.
This will all work as long as you don't care about step 5.
Step 5) Go to jail. You do have to show ID to vote and if there is someone in line behind you at the booth, they will know real quick you hacked the machine.
We've all heard the joke about how to get on the front page of Digg. /. it was an article on 10 failed mouse designs. Today it is 10 things we don't know about the human body.
Your article title should be "Top X {Reasons|Ways|Games...] To [Pick Up Girls|Make your own Fusion Reactor...]"
Yesterday on
To post a real use for the keyboard...
Moving using the WASD keys in a FPS: Light touch means walk - Normal pressure means run. I would probably like this better than using a separate key to turn run on & off, but don't make me ever use more than normal pressure for running in a game.
You know what I have never understood. These companies complain about Google and other indexes showing part of a sentence of one of their stories, and then you go to the Wall Street Journal's web site and find buttons to share the story with Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, Del.icio.us, NewsVine, StumbleUpon, & Mixx. Do they want all of the WSJ links on Digg to point to a dead page? Obviously someone over there understands the power of other sites linking to your own.
Accidentally moderated this offtopic - stupid scroll wheel on the mouse. Replying to cancel the moderation.
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Since no one reads the article and seems more interested in whining about diamond prices, here are the improvements that were achieved with the new thermal paste.
Idle - Max load
42c - 57c - Arctic Silver with a fresh application
39c - 54c - Arctic Silver with 2 week cure
29c - 38c - Diamond Grease with a fresh application
These numbers are almost too good to be true. A 19c drop under load with diamond paste? With my 4GHz OC'd system, I'm happy getting 38c when idling. If this data is true, it will really be revolutionary.
And yet sometimes the judges have no problem ignoring the laws because they don't like it or don't understand it.
Remember the slashdot article about suing spammers: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=07/04/18/1247229
Your iPod explodes and Apple's settlement is a new iPod. To get the new iPod you have to sign an agreement allowing you to be sued if you tell anyone about the exploding iPod.
Why wouldn't this make them "act hysterically"?
You know Apple spent 10 times more than the cost of the iPod writing and delivering the legal papers that they were asked to sign. The new iPod should be a given. The legal documents would only make sense if there was added incentive to keep quiet.
I wouldn't be suprised if Apple spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year paying people to look for good & bad press about their company on sites like this one. $200 for hush money is a joke and an insult, and the family in this case knows it.
Plus, landing robots is getting easier. Look at the recent success with designs that use parachutes + inflatable balloons and have the lander bounce around until it stops. Can't do that with people. The KISS principle works here.
This investigation has been brought to you by Google.
If someone sold you a stolen car, the police would come and take the car. They would not give you back your added components and you would not get any money back unless you could find and sue the person that sold it to you.