1. Most people go to Google already knowing what they are going to search for, and that flashing up partially matching results that have no bearing on what you are looking for will only distract you, causing you to type slower as you try to read faster.
2. Perhaps this is saving time, but it sure as hell won't save any energy, as they'll be starting search queries over multiple servers for things you weren't even looking for, and presumably leaving them to timeout the millisecond you type the next letter.
3. Contrary to all the other whiners here on/. I find the faded links and instant focus on the search textbox the most effective thing Google have done in years...
please feel free to help yourself i also have problems with sentence construction and i have some capital letters if you think they would be useful to start sentences and proper nouns.,ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
And just think of all the Carbon Dioxide we can use up in the process. And before you start blathering about night time when they consume Oxygen... well duh, solar cells... just leave the bloody light on !
Cathay Pacific, Pilot Rates, B747 Cargo, 13 flights per month = $14,343.
That's $172,116 a year, working essentially 156 days out of 365, with maybe another 156 days layover in foreign hotels and a couple of months vacation.
My heart fucking bleeds for them, the poor underpaid loves.
I've NEVER even SEEN $172,116 all at the same time in one place.
To be fair, the guy who landed safely in the Hudson River is a "hero" precisely because he landed safely.
Had he crashed 5 meters short of the Hudson River, taking out a couple of tall buildings on the way, there would have been plenty of "WTF was he thinking" type of questions.
please sir to be sending me an explanation of your code. I am reading your comments, but you have not explained HOW function FooBar works, only that it is doing something and getting this result. there is no input, so what bar are we checking ? please to be answering quickly sir, as my employer will be withholding my $2 an hour salary until I fix this.
Look, the PHB usually wants the code to run on HIS server for HIS use only. That's what he pays you for. Not to code it in the most cross-platform friendly language-du-jour and take 2 years to iron out all the bugs.
He doesn't give a shit if it'll run on the Xbox 360 or a Linux-ready Dead Badger.
And neither should you, unless you are some kind of anal retentive who spends all day arguing the merits of absolute versus relative positioning, fixed vs percentage tables, and worrying whether your code will run on every machine conceived in the next 50 years.
I have news for you, it won't.
Hell, I got an N900 6 months ago, and it's already EOL'd as far as updates to the OS are concerned.
I suppose I could wait till there's a port of Android or something, because the three coders on the project are doing a fine job, in less than a year I'll have the same functionality as a 3210.
Obviously the author had ImageMagick pre-installed on his Linux box, and has never had to actually install the fucker.
What a chore, pages and pages of mumbo-jumbo flying up the shell, then just when you think your done, it turns out it needs all kinds of extra libraries for certain filetypes (installed in VERY specific locations) to handle popular formats like JPG. Why in God's name the supposed "number one image processing solution for Linux" can't even handle JPG out of the box is beyond me.
It's not like you have to pay for the additional libraries, just download them from somewhere else, make some extra incantations, and sacrifice one extra chicken.
I don't think any one person would spend $50 on CMOT Dibbler's anythings.
If calling dry feet at the expense of someone's job "positive", then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
The $50 used to employ the bootmaker would ALSO have made it's way back into the economy, even if only buying the services of Mrs Palm and her friends at the Guild of Seamstresses.
Gotta love Discworld Economics... if they'd taught it this way at school, perhaps we would all be accountants now.
But by buying 10 pairs of boots, he was keeping the boot-maker in employment, and his cast-offs could be eaten by Foul Old Ron. Buggrit, Mud & Old Boots.
This is the reason why everything, from the car you drive, the computer you type message to Slashdot on, and even you yourself, have a shelf-life.
If everything lasted for ever, the economy would grind to a halt, as no one would need to produce anything.
Having spent a couple of years in the UAE back in the 90's, I can tell you the ban has NOTHING to do with spying, and everything to do with Etisalat (the national phone company) desire to control all aspects of IT in the country.
Years ago, at the advent of the mobile, you could get one (1) model of phone in Abu Dhabi... the "Hud Hud 1" was the model name, I remember it fondly, with it's external antenna that almost took your eye out, and it's inability to hold a call for more than 5 minutes. You couldn't even use it indoors, I had to sit outside in the bloody desert with only camel spiders for company, to call my girlfriend who worked in Abu Dhabi city. Text hadn't even been invented, so it was calls only.
There was one (1) phone model, one (1) line provider, one (1) internet provider, one (1) e-mail service, and it was All Etisalat provided.
Now, 12 years, later, there is a few more phone models, but still only one (1) line provider, one (1) internet provider, one (1) e-mail service... wanna take a guess who it is ?
Whichever of Sheikh Khalifa's brothers is running Etisalat doesn't want his business fucked up, and the possibility of anyone using IT without Etisalat getting their pound of flesh is unthinkable. THAT is why they are putting the screws on RIM.
Why should I be taxed $N a year for roads, when I don't even have a car. Why should I be taxed $N a year for social security, when I'm not even sick. Why should I be taxed $N a year for overseas conflict, when I'm a pacifist.
Because life isn't fair.
But it's a hell of a lot fairer if everyone shares the load, rather than playing haves and have-nots like a bunch of selfish wankers.
Plus, if it removes N lawyers from business, that's always a bonus.
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Wait till you try "Japanese Schoolgirl Les"
(son Plans)
Yes
I'm sure this will be updated in the near future to use a REAL transport protocol.
FTFY
MY key technical insights ...
1. Most people go to Google already knowing what they are going to search for, and that flashing up partially matching results that have no bearing on what you are looking for will only distract you, causing you to type slower as you try to read faster.
2. Perhaps this is saving time, but it sure as hell won't save any energy, as they'll be starting search queries over multiple servers for things you weren't even looking for, and presumably leaving them to timeout the millisecond you type the next letter.
3. Contrary to all the other whiners here on /. I find the faded links and instant focus on the search textbox the most effective thing Google have done in years ...
Jesus Christ, then he'd have to move his mouse all the way to his bookmarks toolbar and click something !!!
HE DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL THAT SHIT !!!
If you'd categorized your porn collection properly, it wouldn't need to all be in one folder :-(
please feel free to help yourself i also have problems with sentence construction and i have some capital letters if you think they would be useful to start sentences and proper nouns .,ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
And just think of all the Carbon Dioxide we can use up in the process. And before you start blathering about night time when they consume Oxygen ... well duh, solar cells ... just leave the bloody light on !
SMTP is the transport protocol.
IMAP and/or POP3 are STORAGE protocols.
because nokia and intel are focusing on Meego which will be released for N900 aswell.
Citation please, for my piece of mind.
I'm sorry, I was thinking business programming, you were thinking Facebook games. My bad.
Cathay Pacific, Pilot Rates, B747 Cargo, 13 flights per month = $14,343.
That's $172,116 a year, working essentially 156 days out of 365, with maybe another 156 days layover in foreign hotels and a couple of months vacation.
My heart fucking bleeds for them, the poor underpaid loves.
I've NEVER even SEEN $172,116 all at the same time in one place.
So what happens when you run out of coins? Wet your seat? That would put an end to the pee fairly soon.
FTFY
To be fair, the guy who landed safely in the Hudson River is a "hero" precisely because he landed safely.
Had he crashed 5 meters short of the Hudson River, taking out a couple of tall buildings on the way, there would have been plenty of "WTF was he thinking" type of questions.
Unless EVERY machine blows up, he's still ahead in the game ...
please sir to be sending me an explanation of your code. I am reading your comments, but you have not explained HOW function FooBar works, only that it is doing something and getting this result. there is no input, so what bar are we checking ? please to be answering quickly sir, as my employer will be withholding my $2 an hour salary until I fix this.
Look, the PHB usually wants the code to run on HIS server for HIS use only. That's what he pays you for. Not to code it in the most cross-platform friendly language-du-jour and take 2 years to iron out all the bugs.
He doesn't give a shit if it'll run on the Xbox 360 or a Linux-ready Dead Badger.
And neither should you, unless you are some kind of anal retentive who spends all day arguing the merits of absolute versus relative positioning, fixed vs percentage tables, and worrying whether your code will run on every machine conceived in the next 50 years.
I have news for you, it won't.
Hell, I got an N900 6 months ago, and it's already EOL'd as far as updates to the OS are concerned.
I suppose I could wait till there's a port of Android or something, because the three coders on the project are doing a fine job, in less than a year I'll have the same functionality as a 3210.
Obviously the author had ImageMagick pre-installed on his Linux box, and has never had to actually install the fucker.
What a chore, pages and pages of mumbo-jumbo flying up the shell, then just when you think your done, it turns out it needs all kinds of extra libraries for certain filetypes (installed in VERY specific locations) to handle popular formats like JPG. Why in God's name the supposed "number one image processing solution for Linux" can't even handle JPG out of the box is beyond me.
It's not like you have to pay for the additional libraries, just download them from somewhere else, make some extra incantations, and sacrifice one extra chicken.
I don't think any one person would spend $50 on CMOT Dibbler's anythings.
If calling dry feet at the expense of someone's job "positive", then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
The $50 used to employ the bootmaker would ALSO have made it's way back into the economy, even if only buying the services of Mrs Palm and her friends at the Guild of Seamstresses.
Gotta love Discworld Economics ... if they'd taught it this way at school, perhaps we would all be accountants now.
He implied you were illiterate, not innumerate.
But by buying 10 pairs of boots, he was keeping the boot-maker in employment, and his cast-offs could be eaten by Foul Old Ron. Buggrit, Mud & Old Boots.
This is the reason why everything, from the car you drive, the computer you type message to Slashdot on, and even you yourself, have a shelf-life.
If everything lasted for ever, the economy would grind to a halt, as no one would need to produce anything.
Having spent a couple of years in the UAE back in the 90's, I can tell you the ban has NOTHING to do with spying, and everything to do with Etisalat (the national phone company) desire to control all aspects of IT in the country.
Years ago, at the advent of the mobile, you could get one (1) model of phone in Abu Dhabi ... the "Hud Hud 1" was the model name, I remember it fondly, with it's external antenna that almost took your eye out, and it's inability to hold a call for more than 5 minutes. You couldn't even use it indoors, I had to sit outside in the bloody desert with only camel spiders for company, to call my girlfriend who worked in Abu Dhabi city. Text hadn't even been invented, so it was calls only.
There was one (1) phone model, one (1) line provider, one (1) internet provider, one (1) e-mail service, and it was All Etisalat provided.
Now, 12 years, later, there is a few more phone models, but still only one (1) line provider, one (1) internet provider, one (1) e-mail service ... wanna take a guess who it is ?
Whichever of Sheikh Khalifa's brothers is running Etisalat doesn't want his business fucked up, and the possibility of anyone using IT without Etisalat getting their pound of flesh is unthinkable. THAT is why they are putting the screws on RIM.
Surely the first one to blame is the person employed by the company who actually leaked the film ?
Don't these people have to sign NDAs ?
Why should I be taxed $N a year for roads, when I don't even have a car.
Why should I be taxed $N a year for social security, when I'm not even sick.
Why should I be taxed $N a year for overseas conflict, when I'm a pacifist.
Because life isn't fair.
But it's a hell of a lot fairer if everyone shares the load, rather than playing haves and have-nots like a bunch of selfish wankers.
Plus, if it removes N lawyers from business, that's always a bonus.
So they want 5000 filesharers to pay the ENTIRE production cost of the movie (5000 * 3000) = 15m, then the 40m is clear profit ?
So, you payda money and maybya dont fall down da stairs ? Bunch of corrupt bastards. Sorry, bunch of government santioned bastards.