Wow. All you have to do is start your post with a bold declaration that it's not a troll and you get modded "interesting" rather than "troll"? I'm amazed.
Well, maybe it wasn't adding anything for the humor impaired. I really didn't think much of it until I thought somebody who wasn't too pompous to admit their own error was quite the rarity here. That mods might find it "insightful" struck me as funny.
I bet you're one of those people that keeps shouting "Hahaha you can't win verbally!" while being beaten into a pulp.
No. That's what happens to the ones who insult the bullies and they know they've been insulted. I'd only get beat up if they jumped me before I had a chance to talk my way out of it. Since most bullies seemed to want to taunt their victims first (something I still don't comprehend) that didn't happen too often.
Got out of a fight one time by expressing concern for the bully and asking if he felt OK. When he asked "Why?" I said, "Hey, I'm no doctor, but you seem to have all the symptoms of someone who is anencephalic."
...there is an SEC doctrine that triggers a corporate compulsion for a company to maintain it's books openly once it's past a certain quantum of revenue.
There are many privately held companies that are far more profitable than Google. No IPO yet.
Insightful? Huh? Can you provide me with a link that shows that Google derived its name from googol?
I'd always assumed that Google was related to "looking" or "eyes" as in, "The monster had great big googly eyes". Try a search on "googl* eyes" and see what you come up with. Since it "looks" for stuff and isn't spelled the same as "googol" I thought my assumptions to be reasonable, but now you tell me that "No one is denying the source of the word".
Look, you cite a dictionary entry that show the word googol exists. Big deal. Unless you can cite something in Google's history that indicates they wanted to use the term because it indicated a large number of returns on a search, "like googol" I don't see your case. The two words are spelled differently and I believe "google" has been in (relatively obscure) use as a synonym for "look" for a long time. The large eyes on stuffed animals and muppets have been known as "googly eyes" as long as I can remember.
Google has been high profile for some time now. That this surfaces just prior to the IPO makes this nothing more than a money grab.
Yoiks! I just thought it was funny. Didn't know about an article on Sunday. Have to set the controls on the wayback machine and see what it had to say....
Well, the specific problem was that they don't have time to transcribe all the handwritten notes on the computer when they return home. With a PDA you just dump them to the mothership when you get back. Not sure how you'd accomplish that with the pad of paper which is what our wandering inquisitor is flummoxed about now.
Yeah, but transcribing voice is more tedious than transcribing handwriting. This information doesn't help the wanderer and isn't all that interesting since most digicams that can do video can add voice notes.
Well, Epson's Photo 960 printer is European (didn't know that when I bought it) so I can't print a borderless 8x10, but I can print a borderless A4. So I have to print 8x10's on 8.5x11 sheets and trim.
Don't know about actual photographic (light sensitive) paper.
How about his inability to discern light from shadow....
Only three shadows are cast. That is, two of the shadows disappear. If you look closely, you'll see that where there been two red shadows are now dark. So, punching two more holes actually results in two of the shadows going dark.
As I read this he's calling the light that passes through the holes "shadows" that disappear by going dark.
Actually hang out with people from other countries for a while you will soon understand that their conceptions of what life in America is like are heavily shaped by visual media.
Other countries? When I was in high school I visited sunny California. When the locals found out I was from Kansas they wanted to know all about the Indians and buffalo herds and sod houses. Oh, the tales I spun! Indian uprisings and herd migrations causing the one room schoolhouse to close for weeks at a time. They were reassured when I told them we hoped things would change some when the railroad finally comes through.....
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Wow. All you have to do is start your post with a bold declaration that it's not a troll and you get modded "interesting" rather than "troll"? I'm amazed.
Suthun' Bell (that's Southern to all the yankees)
And the CWA is Communications Workers of America.
(rinse, lather, repeat)
Hey, I remember you! The guy who walks downtown with a stick and sudsy hair....
Well, maybe it wasn't adding anything for the humor impaired. I really didn't think much of it until I thought somebody who wasn't too pompous to admit their own error was quite the rarity here. That mods might find it "insightful" struck me as funny.
I bet you're one of those people that keeps shouting "Hahaha you can't win verbally!" while being beaten into a pulp.
No. That's what happens to the ones who insult the bullies and they know they've been insulted. I'd only get beat up if they jumped me before I had a chance to talk my way out of it. Since most bullies seemed to want to taunt their victims first (something I still don't comprehend) that didn't happen too often.
Got out of a fight one time by expressing concern for the bully and asking if he felt OK. When he asked "Why?" I said, "Hey, I'm no doctor, but you seem to have all the symptoms of someone who is anencephalic."
He walked away holding his stomach.
Oh, the mods don't "play".... and many of them don't understand "words" either....
They're not even bright enough to note what they're being "honored" for....
Reminds me of the bullies in Jr. High that you could insult with big words as long as your vocal inflection made it sound nice.
Gee. Somebody admits they're wrong on /. and gets modded "overrated". Heck, I'd have thought some of the mods would have seen it as "insightful"....
Thanks. Looks like I'll be eating my words at least once more....
At least you earned your "informative" my friend.
Thanks. I stand corrected. I did a cursory search of their site but didn't find anything (must've "fat-fingered" the word "googol").
...there is an SEC doctrine that triggers a corporate compulsion for a company to maintain it's books openly once it's past a certain quantum of revenue.
There are many privately held companies that are far more profitable than Google. No IPO yet.
No one is denying the source of the word.
Insightful? Huh? Can you provide me with a link that shows that Google derived its name from googol?
I'd always assumed that Google was related to "looking" or "eyes" as in, "The monster had great big googly eyes". Try a search on "googl* eyes" and see what you come up with. Since it "looks" for stuff and isn't spelled the same as "googol" I thought my assumptions to be reasonable, but now you tell me that "No one is denying the source of the word".
They deserve every bit of what they get.
If they get nothing I agree....
Look, you cite a dictionary entry that show the word googol exists. Big deal. Unless you can cite something in Google's history that indicates they wanted to use the term because it indicated a large number of returns on a search, "like googol" I don't see your case. The two words are spelled differently and I believe "google" has been in (relatively obscure) use as a synonym for "look" for a long time. The large eyes on stuffed animals and muppets have been known as "googly eyes" as long as I can remember.
Google has been high profile for some time now. That this surfaces just prior to the IPO makes this nothing more than a money grab.
Yoiks! I just thought it was funny. Didn't know about an article on Sunday. Have to set the controls on the wayback machine and see what it had to say....
So you're saying a Powerbook isn't a computer?
Well, the specific problem was that they don't have time to transcribe all the handwritten notes on the computer when they return home. With a PDA you just dump them to the mothership when you get back. Not sure how you'd accomplish that with the pad of paper which is what our wandering inquisitor is flummoxed about now.
Yeah, but transcribing voice is more tedious than transcribing handwriting. This information doesn't help the wanderer and isn't all that interesting since most digicams that can do video can add voice notes.
I know a lot of my weight is a result of Fig Newtons....
Well, Epson's Photo 960 printer is European (didn't know that when I bought it) so I can't print a borderless 8x10, but I can print a borderless A4. So I have to print 8x10's on 8.5x11 sheets and trim.
Don't know about actual photographic (light sensitive) paper.
You mean, "...the French AM smarter then us"..."
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Nick berg's head is useful for so many things...
Perhaps, some day, your head will be marginally as useful....
As I read this he's calling the light that passes through the holes "shadows" that disappear by going dark.
Actually hang out with people from other countries for a while you will soon understand that their conceptions of what life in America is like are heavily shaped by visual media.
Other countries? When I was in high school I visited sunny California. When the locals found out I was from Kansas they wanted to know all about the Indians and buffalo herds and sod houses. Oh, the tales I spun! Indian uprisings and herd migrations causing the one room schoolhouse to close for weeks at a time. They were reassured when I told them we hoped things would change some when the railroad finally comes through.....