National inferiority complex eh?
As a kid I worked in a fast food joint in Alaska. It puzzled me that sometimes a Canadian customer would say something self-deprecating like, "Don't mind me, I'm Canadian." Or, "Sorry, I'm Canadian." And I'd be like, "Sorry for what? Here's your chicken wings."
Can you blame them? How many earthquake/tsunami reports have we had lately? Indonesia, India, New Orleans, Pakistan, Haiti, Chile, etc..
How many nuclear meltdowns have we had lately? Nuclear mutants and roving bands of cannibalistic are much more interesting than yet another collapsed structure or missing person report.
You don't think the entirety of what google users click on after typing in a search term is something google would rather keep secret and something that is vital to their competitive advantage?
there's already a 1000 comments over on fox's website slamming the article. Though, I don't appear to be able to link to them. Stupid Ajaxy website breaking the Internet!
Yeah, Far 7 is a good start. But, I saw limited ability for strategy... compare to say, tradewars where you could control sectors, form alliances, and build up a little empire. I'm just saying, I was hoping for more.
Are you serious? Clickstream, Surfstream, Searchstream. Fancy words for a keylogger. From your link:
“We’re not copying but watching users,” Shum said.
Weitz added, “The word ‘copy’ has a very specific connotation, and it’s wrong. We get the clickstream. We’re going to see it. We may choose to show it or not.”
It doesn't matter if you call it watching instead of copying. It's still copying. Bing shouldn't be "watching" google's results, or "copying" the user's click behavior. That's like google's trade secrets. An analogy would be an online newspaper who copies articles verbatim from a competitor, and then justifying it by saying, "We didn't copy the article, we just monitored the user's eyestream and discovered this article. But it's ok because we copy everybody's articles."
From your link: "Bing can also examine how people click on its own results that it lists in response to that search." No shit? It's like it's listed as an afterthought. Of course Bing should be paying attention to their own clicks... and not scraping their competitor's data. But instead, they're trying to justify it using PR words, and creating a convoluted argument that they are merely, "showing the surfstream" rather than "creating a reproduction of an original work", i.e. copying.
It would be like a dating site copying a fake profile from a competitor. "We didn't copy that profile, we're just showing the datestream."
All of these HTML5 games lack ambition. None of them seem to have the gameplay, fun-factor, playtime, or cohesiveness of say... original Super Mario Brothers. Apparently Freeciv online wasn't submitted, but I think it has a lot more polish and overall completedness than any of these submissions. Personally, I think the future of HTML5 gaming is wide open
They used to use this in Hawaii for transferring sugar from a coastal mill to the boats along the north-eastern coast of Hawaii where there are no harbors. They would carry a rope out to the boat on a little skiff and then set up the aerial lift.
Sure! I cheated a little. Since the article I linked was specifically about the difficulty/ambiguity of converting all of the LoC's works into number of bytes, I just took the size of their currently digitized items, 74TB:
"For instance, we can as of this moment say that the approximate amount of our collections that are digitized and freely and publicly available on the Internet is about 74 terabytes."
Then since the parent myoparo said a smartphone contains the LoC, "thousands of times over", I figured the lowest possible value for "thousands" would be 2000.
When the government wants data from Google, Google can "steadfastly refuse". But when the government wants data from Average Joe, they just bust his door down with a SWAT team and confiscate everything.
I don't have a tremendous amount of FB friends. ~100. But whenever someone unfriends me, I can NEVER, EVER tell who it was.
I figure well, they obviously didn't have that much impact on my life, so they probably won't be missed. But I've resorted to cut-n-pasting my list of friends over to a text file, so that I can figure out who it was when curiosity gets the better of me.
It seems a more economical solution to me than having a greasemonkey script constantly running in the background.
Slashdot Mirror
About 2000 "Redundant" mods.
Can't anyone read the other 100 posts about SSL needing its own IP address?
National inferiority complex eh? As a kid I worked in a fast food joint in Alaska. It puzzled me that sometimes a Canadian customer would say something self-deprecating like, "Don't mind me, I'm Canadian." Or, "Sorry, I'm Canadian." And I'd be like, "Sorry for what? Here's your chicken wings."
Or maybe they were just being optimistic.
Can you blame them? How many earthquake/tsunami reports have we had lately? Indonesia, India, New Orleans, Pakistan, Haiti, Chile, etc..
How many nuclear meltdowns have we had lately? Nuclear mutants and roving bands of cannibalistic are much more interesting than yet another collapsed structure or missing person report.
You don't think the entirety of what google users click on after typing in a search term is something google would rather keep secret and something that is vital to their competitive advantage?
there's already a 1000 comments over on fox's website slamming the article. Though, I don't appear to be able to link to them. Stupid Ajaxy website breaking the Internet!
You'll have to click the comments icon.
Yeah, I think that was precisely his point. Besides, who wants an ungrateful employee?
Yeah, Far 7 is a good start. But, I saw limited ability for strategy... compare to say, tradewars where you could control sectors, form alliances, and build up a little empire. I'm just saying, I was hoping for more.
Ohh, spoke to soon, freeciv was submitted: https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/
Are you serious? Clickstream, Surfstream, Searchstream. Fancy words for a keylogger. From your link:
“We’re not copying but watching users,” Shum said.
Weitz added, “The word ‘copy’ has a very specific connotation, and it’s wrong. We get the clickstream. We’re going to see it. We may choose to show it or not.”
It doesn't matter if you call it watching instead of copying. It's still copying. Bing shouldn't be "watching" google's results, or "copying" the user's click behavior. That's like google's trade secrets. An analogy would be an online newspaper who copies articles verbatim from a competitor, and then justifying it by saying, "We didn't copy the article, we just monitored the user's eyestream and discovered this article. But it's ok because we copy everybody's articles."
From your link: "Bing can also examine how people click on its own results that it lists in response to that search." No shit? It's like it's listed as an afterthought. Of course Bing should be paying attention to their own clicks... and not scraping their competitor's data. But instead, they're trying to justify it using PR words, and creating a convoluted argument that they are merely, "showing the surfstream" rather than "creating a reproduction of an original work", i.e. copying.
It would be like a dating site copying a fake profile from a competitor. "We didn't copy that profile, we're just showing the datestream."
All of these HTML5 games lack ambition. None of them seem to have the gameplay, fun-factor, playtime, or cohesiveness of say... original Super Mario Brothers. Apparently Freeciv online wasn't submitted, but I think it has a lot more polish and overall completedness than any of these submissions. Personally, I think the future of HTML5 gaming is wide open
I think you should get a job as a writer. Good stuff.
Just more examples of why PoF is one of the most poorly designed websites that ever existed.
They used to use this in Hawaii for transferring sugar from a coastal mill to the boats along the north-eastern coast of Hawaii where there are no harbors. They would carry a rope out to the boat on a little skiff and then set up the aerial lift.
Sure! I cheated a little. Since the article I linked was specifically about the difficulty/ambiguity of converting all of the LoC's works into number of bytes, I just took the size of their currently digitized items, 74TB:
"For instance, we can as of this moment say that the approximate amount of our collections that are digitized and freely and publicly available on the Internet is about 74 terabytes."
Then since the parent myoparo said a smartphone contains the LoC, "thousands of times over", I figured the lowest possible value for "thousands" would be 2000.
So, 74TB * 2000 = 148,0000TB.
Tech support. Yeah.. What? You can't what? oh... It's called a hyperlink. You click on it.
Hey sycraft, are you looking for a way to cut off the net at large, but maintain connections to your critical servers?
When the government wants data from Google, Google can "steadfastly refuse". But when the government wants data from Average Joe, they just bust his door down with a SWAT team and confiscate everything.
I don't have a tremendous amount of FB friends. ~100. But whenever someone unfriends me, I can NEVER, EVER tell who it was.
I figure well, they obviously didn't have that much impact on my life, so they probably won't be missed. But I've resorted to cut-n-pasting my list of friends over to a text file, so that I can figure out who it was when curiosity gets the better of me.
It seems a more economical solution to me than having a greasemonkey script constantly running in the background.
exactly what I was thinking
^Obviously one of the 100.
You scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Get X More Comments".
For me, it only takes up 2-11% of the CPU(s) on my Windows 7 in Chrome on an Athlon II 2.7ghz dual core.
It takes up 14-22% if I scroll.
Seems pretty typical compared to other websites.
Now, if I didn't have to type br's after every line, that would be an improvement!
Then those people can just drive less efficient vehicles. Fuck em.
Just give the Chinese government a bill for all the copies of Windows and Office at retail price... blam! no more China debt.
Man, they should make me President.