Seems I've read an article within the last couple of months that touted customer testimonials regarding Google's ads producing more revenue than other internet ads (perhaps as a ratio to expense of the ad because I think the same article talked about the relatively low cost of the Google ads). Either the same article or one within that timeframe mentioned Google's profit picture but I don't recall if they were already profitable or nearing profitability. Of course this is all hearsay from an unnamed source, but maybe it's enough to trigger the more industrious among us to ferret out the details.
A microdrive (as with any hard drive) will, i think, be toast if the head touches the platter.
That's not the problem it used to be as I understand it. I was told the microdrives are using heads "printed" on mylar or something similar so that they won't carve impact craters on the platters.
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We just switched to running linux front end boxes combined with aolserver band arsdigita's oracle driver. we're having trouble with that combination.
Maybe that explains why it's been so slow lately. I'm sitting behind a T-1 at work and it looks like my 28.8 connection at home.
"The idea is to bring together children ages 10 to 15 years old from around the world at 8 or 9 centers scattered about all continents except Antarctica.
As a 12 year old from Antarctica why am I denied access to this experiment. Bah! It wouldn't have involved PDA's with Penguins anyway.
No, that's not Harry Potter. That's Henry Potter....
"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" used to be a well-known disclaimer, although today it would be more along the lines of, "Names have been changed to protect ourselves from the [deranged|litigious|dangerous]" but I'm not afraid....
The problem is that flood geology was shown to be false by the end of the 18th century.
Can you provide references for me? I'd like to read up on that as the flood theory has seemed to me to be some of the more credible data from the creationist camp. I was not aware of any refutation, but when I took geology there was not a creationist movement to refute.
In any case "creationism" was and is not "thrown out categorically". It's a very modern conceit to think so. I might remind that it (or some sort of similar idea) was the dominant idea in the west for at least a thousand years. Among some groups of people, you might even be able to claim four thousand years or more. It's hardly a case of off-hand dismissal. I'm pretty sure that the evidence was on hand when the theory of evolution was first introduced, and remains so.
While I would agree that creation was the dominant idea in the western world for centuries, I don't think that applies to your argument. As I understand it, creation"ism" is the application of scientific evidence to the account of creation in scripture. Prior to the current climate, creation was accepted on faith and few were the attempts to apply geological, fossil or other evidences to creation as a scientific endeavor. To simply say that the evidence was on hand when evolution began to gain acceptance ignores that mindset. It's rather like calling the accused guilty when there was a prosecutor who interpreted all of the evidence and no defense attorney.
True enough, but that's how all science works. You gather up all the hypotheses that claim to explain the available evidence, apply Occam's Razor, and go with the result until new evidence demands otherwise.
I always wondered why Creationism isn't viewed as the ultimate expression of Occam's Razor....
If you had actually read one or two popular science books on the subject of evolution, such as "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould, you'd realise that evolution is not the same as progress.
I loved the movie but haven't read the book. That Jimmy Stewart is some actor. But I can see the point about evolution !=progress from that evil Harry Potter who opressed the poor and built the depressing Potterville and poor Mr. Gower! But I devolve.... I mean digress.
Sure, that's the case now (and has been for some time), but at one point IE was the underdog both from a technological point of view and a marketshare point of view. The point was that they weren't content to win marketshare based on improvements that they were making to their software. Not only do they have the size to throw money and talented developers on a project, but they went beyond to muscle their way into the market with anti-competitive actions.
Sure users can still download Netscape if they want to, but now it's a moot point.
By the way, I'm using Opera 6.0 today. Tomorrow? Who knows?
100 years ago if you would have told me there were going to be atomic bombs, microwave ovens, and 747's that could fly anywhere in the world in under a day I would probably be thinking the same way I am now about this device.
Well, I wasn't around 100 years ago to tell you that, but I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to see a computer literate centenarian here on/. when most of your peers live in fear of technology. Well, most of them that live in any kind of a state at all of course.....
it's wrong to sue someone for making a product better than yours.
But that's not the point. Microsoft was not content to win on the technical merits of their software. The point is that they leveraged their monopoly position in OS to strong-arm the distribution channel into locking Netscape out - something that a company whose name recognition and OS penetration should have been all the one-two punch they'd need to knock out most competitors, regardless of their software's merits.
I disagree with this, if you shop around, you can still get great deals on tons of electronics/computer equipment...more so then you can in your local Best Buy or Circuit City.
Hmmm. I just find a good price from a legit retailer on the web (I don't know if this would work on ebay prices) and take it to my local Best Buy and they match it. That way I get a local company to deal with if there are problems.
Because I can think of no better way to waste a whole lot of processor time, and a whole lot of bandwidth. (Did I mention user time?)
So what? My processor is fairly idle while I'm sleeping (besides what little the elves need) and user time would be nil if you can set up a cron to kick the thing off (or minimal if you kick it off just before going to get some much needed rest). The only drawback you listed that has any merit is bandwidth and that would only be an issue for those having metered connections (unless you're suggesting that a significant portion of the world will suddenly switch to this solution and bring the net to its knees - that's not likely since most corporate IT departments would probably cast a jaundiced eye at automatic changes being made on production servers).
And what games do you play in linux that make windows look unstable? Loki's ports are not any more stable than their windows counterparts.. the only difference I see is if one of them locks up you just hit ctr alt backspace and then type startx..
Had you asked what games are more stable under Linux than under Windows you might have a point. Windows looks unstable because when the game goes south the OS goes with it. The fact that the closest Windows comes to a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the Ctrl-Alt-Delete or an executive logoff (power button) points to the instability of the OS.
If an animal is raised in captivity, doesn't that automatically make it domesticated?
No. Not until they have been adapted to some suitable use and compatibility with humans. That could conceivably take many generations under controlled breeding programs.
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They have been around long enough that even the weakest of minds know Google.
Au contraire! I introduce people to Google a couple times a month at least! They're not dumb though, just ignorant.
Or do they realize that they cannot continue like this forever (giving exelent stuff away for free).
Your budget must be different than mine. Last time I checked, $20k wasn't even close to free? Or maybe Andersen is your accounting firm....
Seems I've read an article within the last couple of months that touted customer testimonials regarding Google's ads producing more revenue than other internet ads (perhaps as a ratio to expense of the ad because I think the same article talked about the relatively low cost of the Google ads). Either the same article or one within that timeframe mentioned Google's profit picture but I don't recall if they were already profitable or nearing profitability. Of course this is all hearsay from an unnamed source, but maybe it's enough to trigger the more industrious among us to ferret out the details.
A microdrive (as with any hard drive) will, i think, be toast if the head touches the platter.
That's not the problem it used to be as I understand it. I was told the microdrives are using heads "printed" on mylar or something similar so that they won't carve impact craters on the platters.
We just switched to running linux front end boxes combined with aolserver band arsdigita's oracle driver. we're having trouble with that combination.
Maybe that explains why it's been so slow lately. I'm sitting behind a T-1 at work and it looks like my 28.8 connection at home.
Why does it have to be "came from Microsoft". There must be some Windows lovers out there. Anyone?
Anyone.... Anyone.... Anyon... Any....
And that differs from much of the private sector in what way?
"The idea is to bring together children ages 10 to 15 years old from around the world at 8 or 9 centers scattered about all continents except Antarctica.
As a 12 year old from Antarctica why am I denied access to this experiment. Bah! It wouldn't have involved PDA's with Penguins anyway.
No, that's not Harry Potter. That's Henry Potter....
"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" used to be a well-known disclaimer, although today it would be more along the lines of, "Names have been changed to protect ourselves from the [deranged|litigious|dangerous]" but I'm not afraid....
It was a joke.
The original poster made reference to evolution vs. status que (and abbreviation for queue?). So it was a bit of a stretch....
The problem is that flood geology was shown to be false by the end of the 18th century.
Can you provide references for me? I'd like to read up on that as the flood theory has seemed to me to be some of the more credible data from the creationist camp. I was not aware of any refutation, but when I took geology there was not a creationist movement to refute.
In any case "creationism" was and is not "thrown out categorically". It's a very modern conceit to think so. I might remind that it (or some sort of similar idea) was the dominant idea in the west for at least a thousand years. Among some groups of people, you might even be able to claim four thousand years or more. It's hardly a case of off-hand dismissal. I'm pretty sure that the evidence was on hand when the theory of evolution was first introduced, and remains so.
While I would agree that creation was the dominant idea in the western world for centuries, I don't think that applies to your argument. As I understand it, creation"ism" is the application of scientific evidence to the account of creation in scripture. Prior to the current climate, creation was accepted on faith and few were the attempts to apply geological, fossil or other evidences to creation as a scientific endeavor. To simply say that the evidence was on hand when evolution began to gain acceptance ignores that mindset. It's rather like calling the accused guilty when there was a prosecutor who interpreted all of the evidence and no defense attorney.
True enough, but that's how all science works. You gather up all the hypotheses that claim to explain the available evidence, apply Occam's Razor, and go with the result until new evidence demands otherwise.
I always wondered why Creationism isn't viewed as the ultimate expression of Occam's Razor....
Just a thought.
There is no such thing as "devolution", there is either status que or evolution.
So, you're either evolving or standing in line waiting to evolve?
If you had actually read one or two popular science books on the subject of evolution, such as "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould, you'd realise that evolution is not the same as progress.
I loved the movie but haven't read the book. That Jimmy Stewart is some actor. But I can see the point about evolution !=progress from that evil Harry Potter who opressed the poor and built the depressing Potterville and poor Mr. Gower! But I devolve.... I mean digress.
There is no one size fits all answer to this one.
I'm having a hard time deciding if you're referring back to your subject line with that one...
Sure, that's the case now (and has been for some time), but at one point IE was the underdog both from a technological point of view and a marketshare point of view. The point was that they weren't content to win marketshare based on improvements that they were making to their software. Not only do they have the size to throw money and talented developers on a project, but they went beyond to muscle their way into the market with anti-competitive actions.
Sure users can still download Netscape if they want to, but now it's a moot point.
By the way, I'm using Opera 6.0 today. Tomorrow? Who knows?
100 years ago if you would have told me there were going to be atomic bombs, microwave ovens, and 747's that could fly anywhere in the world in under a day I would probably be thinking the same way I am now about this device.
/. when most of your peers live in fear of technology. Well, most of them that live in any kind of a state at all of course.....
Well, I wasn't around 100 years ago to tell you that, but I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to see a computer literate centenarian here on
it's wrong to sue someone for making a product better than yours.
But that's not the point. Microsoft was not content to win on the technical merits of their software. The point is that they leveraged their monopoly position in OS to strong-arm the distribution channel into locking Netscape out - something that a company whose name recognition and OS penetration should have been all the one-two punch they'd need to knock out most competitors, regardless of their software's merits.
I disagree with this, if you shop around, you can still get great deals on tons of electronics/computer equipment...more so then you can in your local Best Buy or Circuit City.
Hmmm. I just find a good price from a legit retailer on the web (I don't know if this would work on ebay prices) and take it to my local Best Buy and they match it. That way I get a local company to deal with if there are problems.
Because I can think of no better way to waste a whole lot of processor time, and a whole lot of bandwidth. (Did I mention user time?)
So what? My processor is fairly idle while I'm sleeping (besides what little the elves need) and user time would be nil if you can set up a cron to kick the thing off (or minimal if you kick it off just before going to get some much needed rest). The only drawback you listed that has any merit is bandwidth and that would only be an issue for those having metered connections (unless you're suggesting that a significant portion of the world will suddenly switch to this solution and bring the net to its knees - that's not likely since most corporate IT departments would probably cast a jaundiced eye at automatic changes being made on production servers).
And what games do you play in linux that make windows look unstable? Loki's ports are not any more stable than their windows counterparts.. the only difference I see is if one of them locks up you just hit ctr alt backspace and then type startx..
Had you asked what games are more stable under Linux than under Windows you might have a point. Windows looks unstable because when the game goes south the OS goes with it. The fact that the closest Windows comes to a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the Ctrl-Alt-Delete or an executive logoff (power button) points to the instability of the OS.
I haven't rebooted my WinXP box in 28 days.
28 days? Should be about time for the next menstrual (reboot) cycle.....
If an animal is raised in captivity, doesn't that automatically make it domesticated?
No. Not until they have been adapted to some suitable use and compatibility with humans. That could conceivably take many generations under controlled breeding programs.
I wondered what he'd been doing since the Monkees...