This shouldn't be thought of as ServerCheck and Cracks, but about term-a as related to term-b by algorithmic popularity (how often term-b has been searched for in the past with term-a, how often term-a and term-b occur "together" on pages in the db, etc). All Google Suggest does is try to make a prediction based on these kinds of popularity factors. Use of the term "suggest" as a marketing tool doesn't change the fact that this isn't a suggestion in the typical sense and thus legislation to make Google stop showing related terms is ridiculous.
Personally, I wish google suggest did more, like pop up a faceted classification tree of relationships as one typed, but I can see why it doesn't do that...
"Terrorist cells use master keys on a one-to-one basis, rather than using them to generate pass keys for a series of communications. With a one-to-one key, you may as well just force the terrorist suspect to decrypt that communication, or use other methods of decryption," said Clayton.
I find this difficult to believe... all the added risk of having to have a continual communication layer on top of the already difficult channels for communication? Last I heard people were still trying to verify that any terrorists were using encryption at all, much less one-time keys...
I can understand the poverty of the imagination that makes normal people see a headline like this and scratch their heads in truly chimp-like fashion. After all, it is hard for many people to contextualize just how much closer together man and chimp once were.
But I don't understand creationists, whose entire religious belief is founded upon an incredibly intricate imaginary world that even they can't agree on, being so shocked. So we have a shared ancestry with monkeys. This is somehow impossible while the parting of the Red Sea, water into wine, the resurrection-- these are not?
This is pretty mixed up-- I do think there is a small, relatively insignificant effect on synthesis when writing by hand (at least compared to linear text input with a keyboard), but I don't know that a class full of scribblers will be any more attentive than a class full of keyboardists.
The real behavior that is tacitly being addressed is probably surfing, chatting, playing solitaire, etc. I have my own thoughts on that score as well-- mainly that this is a wrong-headed "solution" to that "problem"-- but it's not a particularly popular one...
I just wish that development would resume on the Firefox Embeddable/Extended Browser Component (or whatever the heck it's called) that would allow it to be used for internal browsing with third party programs-- it stinks being limited to IE's engine for internal rendering in development apps, feed-reading apps, etc.
Exactly-- it's funny how often people take pride in their idiosyncratic tastes because it makes them feel apart from the common herd, but if a service makes similarly disjointed recommendations they feel as if the service must be at fault. The way Last.fm claims to work would mean that a lot of people DO listen to Aerosmith and Marley, which means you are either out of the mainstream (be proud) or perhaps too mainstream (sorry).
That so exquisitely and precisely misses the point (Yahoo's destined-to-failure top-down hierarchy and the self-directed utility of tagging) that it should be bronzed. Yahoo used to be that when the web was small, tagging makes that when the web gets larger. Tags get better with scale, Yahoo got worse. That's the whole POINT of all these little pieces of informal metadata.
Not true. Read a little further. The authorization of force specifically points to 5b of the War Powers Act. You clearly haven't read that clause have you? War has not been declared.
I have a hard time seeing Ninja Kangaroos serving their McD Overlords considering that Mickey used to strip their bones for burgers back in the 70s (I don't care what Mythbusters say, either, I tasted that 'Roo meat back in the day...)
Wow, you've deciphered the top secret cycle of companies and products suffering backlash due to their growing popularity!? Better start watching your mail for that Nobel invitation...
In a related story, I've started seeing hints that there might be some kind of antipathy towards Microsoft amongst a group of Slashdot commenters. It's difficult to parse, but...
Actually, you're both right. The writing on Lost is weak, but it does have the necessary redeeming characteristic of being intelligible to the occasional watcher. It's not all hidden, which was Whedon's mistake. There will be plenty more of both kinds of shows coming, no one needs to cry over losing this one.
Point taken, but there's just enough of an error rate that if I rip in burst mode or otherwise disable error correction I get a bad rip here and there, which is supremely annoying. I just decided to do it right.
Of course, a lot of people are quite happy with the generally low quality they get on the open file sharing networks, so it would be way overkill for them-- and it depends on hardware and disc condition.
I worry that del.icio.us-- which is the best, though not the most featureful, service of its kind-- is going to get ruined by Yahoo. Of course they say they are not going to mess with it and that it won't get merged into MyWeb and Joshua can do his own thing... and I'm sure that no small part of the acceptance of the offer is based on Flickr surviving the transition pretty well (even given the balking at the Yahoo account thing)... but we've all heard this story before. Yahoo ruined Launch. AOL gutted Winamp. No one ever plans for it to happen.
On the positive side, with the resources they have, imagine what they could do! Google deserves the credit it gets not for inventing new things (though how quickly we forget how innovative Google has been-- no one likes the king of the hill) but for taking existing ideas and making them a LOT better. Sometimes.
Having over 2000 CDs I can see the attraction with these services-- but how many of them rip and encode and tag the files properly? I've slowly been converting my whole collection and it's time consuming to do it right-- I don't mean dropping the disc in iTunes, but EAC with error correction and checksum verification + LAME APS + proper file naming + full tagging (or completely proofread tags normalized to the way I want my whole collection). The only people I've found that meet all my specs are my kids-- and their services don't come cheap...
re: scratches-- Brasso can clean just about any reasonable scratches off of a disc... the only thing better is an actual resurfacing unit, which'll set you back another $2500 or so. Throw those disc doctors and other pieces of crap in the trash where they belong.
That's only true for books submitted by the publishers and for public domain books. For other books there are no context pages, just a few sentences. There are *three* cases:
It doesn't matter if the publisher doesn't like someone making a profit "with their books." The fact is this happens all the time. Cliff's Notes make money. Teaching people to read can make money. Helping people with writing papers makes money. Providing summaries of the latest business books makes money. Teaching and consulting make money. All of these things could not exist without the books, and some of them are directly derivative of the books. Publisher's can't do anything about it, haven't tried to, and they shouldn't be able to stop Google.
This is a "if a tree falls" kind of question. If a copy is technically made, but is unavailable, is it really infringement? Purists can say yes, but the only reason there *is* any law against copying is because of the presumption of harm-- that those copies are shared or used. This is emphatically not the case with Google Print.
It's time for publishers to suck it up and start embracing some news models of information dissemination and discovery. The funny thing is they will ultimately profit. Worst case scenario is that this has no impact on a publisher. Even the most modest case means an increase in attention and sales. At no cost to them. Hopefully they'll figure it out before they buy enough Congressional reps to pull a Disney and rob us of yet another potentially valuable resource.
Thank you! This obvious point seems very hard for people to understand. I hope that publishers lose this one because this will be a big win for everyone, including the publishers who are bringing these lawsuits. Google isn't going to provide the full text, only contextual search excerpts. To read the book, it will still have to be procured, just as it is now. If a publisher allows a summary and metadata to be searched, they should allow this. It is essentially no different in terms of violating copyright protections... it will simply enable a vast increase in the efficacy of search and thus the borrowing and purchasing of books through the same sources used now. Everyone wins.
Reboot time should be pretty much immaterial, since one should only reboot rarely anyway due to suspend and hibernate functions... but in the real world every laptop I've had (Linux or Windows) has had to be rebooted occasionally because of flakiness coming out of suspend/hibernate. Wireless card goes fritzy, explorer crashes, whatever. Maybe they could concentrate on getting the OS to behave before they worry about boot times...
Downloading, installing, and hosting an early version of the IMDB at the film library where I worked-- then keeping it up to date-- was my first foray into working with an internet app (other than email, TeX, and gal-trader on a Vax terminal). I thought Col Needham was a Colonel and had no clue what I was doing, but the buzz from that experience put me gently on the path to learning skills that could feed and clothe myself and my children (unlike my creative writing, literature, and philosophy degrees)...
Talking about the content of "blogs" is as ridiculous as talking about the content of "books"-- as if there is something meaningful that can be generalized about the group. There's a boatload of bad writing on blogs just as there are in the pages of the journals in Gorman's hallowed halls of periodicals. There's also a lot of great writing to be found in both places.
Gorman is responding to a select group of bloggers who chose to attack him because he doesn't think Google should be nominated for sainthood. I think he underestimates the power of searching and random access...
But the real sadness here for those of us who love libraries (I do, and I support them by using them and contributing financially) is that he unfortunately represents a very real and powerful part of the administrative apparatus of most libraries. These people don't understand that the roles of libraries, repositories, and librarians are radically changing. I don't mind the whining of the fossils-- I even appreciate a bit of the productive tension between the white-gloved, shhhh-ing blue-hairs and the stinking rabble of the Internet-- but I feel for the younger set getting their relatively useless Library Science education at institutions run by the traditionalists. They might as well get a degree in phrenology or alchemy...
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This shouldn't be thought of as ServerCheck and Cracks, but about term-a as related to term-b by algorithmic popularity (how often term-b has been searched for in the past with term-a, how often term-a and term-b occur "together" on pages in the db, etc). All Google Suggest does is try to make a prediction based on these kinds of popularity factors. Use of the term "suggest" as a marketing tool doesn't change the fact that this isn't a suggestion in the typical sense and thus legislation to make Google stop showing related terms is ridiculous.
Personally, I wish google suggest did more, like pop up a faceted classification tree of relationships as one typed, but I can see why it doesn't do that...
I find this difficult to believe... all the added risk of having to have a continual communication layer on top of the already difficult channels for communication? Last I heard people were still trying to verify that any terrorists were using encryption at all, much less one-time keys...
I can understand the poverty of the imagination that makes normal people see a headline like this and scratch their heads in truly chimp-like fashion. After all, it is hard for many people to contextualize just how much closer together man and chimp once were.
But I don't understand creationists, whose entire religious belief is founded upon an incredibly intricate imaginary world that even they can't agree on, being so shocked. So we have a shared ancestry with monkeys. This is somehow impossible while the parting of the Red Sea, water into wine, the resurrection-- these are not?
This is pretty mixed up-- I do think there is a small, relatively insignificant effect on synthesis when writing by hand (at least compared to linear text input with a keyboard), but I don't know that a class full of scribblers will be any more attentive than a class full of keyboardists.
The real behavior that is tacitly being addressed is probably surfing, chatting, playing solitaire, etc. I have my own thoughts on that score as well-- mainly that this is a wrong-headed "solution" to that "problem"-- but it's not a particularly popular one...
I just wish that development would resume on the Firefox Embeddable/Extended Browser Component (or whatever the heck it's called) that would allow it to be used for internal browsing with third party programs-- it stinks being limited to IE's engine for internal rendering in development apps, feed-reading apps, etc.
Exactly-- it's funny how often people take pride in their idiosyncratic tastes because it makes them feel apart from the common herd, but if a service makes similarly disjointed recommendations they feel as if the service must be at fault. The way Last.fm claims to work would mean that a lot of people DO listen to Aerosmith and Marley, which means you are either out of the mainstream (be proud) or perhaps too mainstream (sorry).
That so exquisitely and precisely misses the point (Yahoo's destined-to-failure top-down hierarchy and the self-directed utility of tagging) that it should be bronzed. Yahoo used to be that when the web was small, tagging makes that when the web gets larger. Tags get better with scale, Yahoo got worse. That's the whole POINT of all these little pieces of informal metadata.
Not true. Read a little further. The authorization of force specifically points to 5b of the War Powers Act. You clearly haven't read that clause have you? War has not been declared.
and today's blog title somewhere, I'm sure: Where's George Spreads Epidemic.
I have a hard time seeing Ninja Kangaroos serving their McD Overlords considering that Mickey used to strip their bones for burgers back in the 70s (I don't care what Mythbusters say, either, I tasted that 'Roo meat back in the day...)
".i also rather like the idea of hitting the keys very hard to generate caps."
Then my pissed off diatribes would be in ALL CAPS for a reason! Excellent.
Wow, you've deciphered the top secret cycle of companies and products suffering backlash due to their growing popularity!? Better start watching your mail for that Nobel invitation...
In a related story, I've started seeing hints that there might be some kind of antipathy towards Microsoft amongst a group of Slashdot commenters. It's difficult to parse, but...
Actually, you're both right. The writing on Lost is weak, but it does have the necessary redeeming characteristic of being intelligible to the occasional watcher. It's not all hidden, which was Whedon's mistake. There will be plenty more of both kinds of shows coming, no one needs to cry over losing this one.
Point taken, but there's just enough of an error rate that if I rip in burst mode or otherwise disable error correction I get a bad rip here and there, which is supremely annoying. I just decided to do it right.
Of course, a lot of people are quite happy with the generally low quality they get on the open file sharing networks, so it would be way overkill for them-- and it depends on hardware and disc condition.
I worry that del.icio.us-- which is the best, though not the most featureful, service of its kind-- is going to get ruined by Yahoo. Of course they say they are not going to mess with it and that it won't get merged into MyWeb and Joshua can do his own thing... and I'm sure that no small part of the acceptance of the offer is based on Flickr surviving the transition pretty well (even given the balking at the Yahoo account thing)... but we've all heard this story before. Yahoo ruined Launch. AOL gutted Winamp. No one ever plans for it to happen.
On the positive side, with the resources they have, imagine what they could do! Google deserves the credit it gets not for inventing new things (though how quickly we forget how innovative Google has been-- no one likes the king of the hill) but for taking existing ideas and making them a LOT better. Sometimes.
Having over 2000 CDs I can see the attraction with these services-- but how many of them rip and encode and tag the files properly? I've slowly been converting my whole collection and it's time consuming to do it right-- I don't mean dropping the disc in iTunes, but EAC with error correction and checksum verification + LAME APS + proper file naming + full tagging (or completely proofread tags normalized to the way I want my whole collection). The only people I've found that meet all my specs are my kids-- and their services don't come cheap...
re: scratches-- Brasso can clean just about any reasonable scratches off of a disc... the only thing better is an actual resurfacing unit, which'll set you back another $2500 or so. Throw those disc doctors and other pieces of crap in the trash where they belong.
That's only true for books submitted by the publishers and for public domain books. For other books there are no context pages, just a few sentences. There are *three* cases:
http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html
It doesn't matter if the publisher doesn't like someone making a profit "with their books." The fact is this happens all the time. Cliff's Notes make money. Teaching people to read can make money. Helping people with writing papers makes money. Providing summaries of the latest business books makes money. Teaching and consulting make money. All of these things could not exist without the books, and some of them are directly derivative of the books. Publisher's can't do anything about it, haven't tried to, and they shouldn't be able to stop Google.
This is a "if a tree falls" kind of question. If a copy is technically made, but is unavailable, is it really infringement? Purists can say yes, but the only reason there *is* any law against copying is because of the presumption of harm-- that those copies are shared or used. This is emphatically not the case with Google Print.
It's time for publishers to suck it up and start embracing some news models of information dissemination and discovery. The funny thing is they will ultimately profit. Worst case scenario is that this has no impact on a publisher. Even the most modest case means an increase in attention and sales. At no cost to them. Hopefully they'll figure it out before they buy enough Congressional reps to pull a Disney and rob us of yet another potentially valuable resource.
Thank you! This obvious point seems very hard for people to understand. I hope that publishers lose this one because this will be a big win for everyone, including the publishers who are bringing these lawsuits. Google isn't going to provide the full text, only contextual search excerpts. To read the book, it will still have to be procured, just as it is now. If a publisher allows a summary and metadata to be searched, they should allow this. It is essentially no different in terms of violating copyright protections... it will simply enable a vast increase in the efficacy of search and thus the borrowing and purchasing of books through the same sources used now. Everyone wins.
Reboot time should be pretty much immaterial, since one should only reboot rarely anyway due to suspend and hibernate functions... but in the real world every laptop I've had (Linux or Windows) has had to be rebooted occasionally because of flakiness coming out of suspend/hibernate. Wireless card goes fritzy, explorer crashes, whatever. Maybe they could concentrate on getting the OS to behave before they worry about boot times...
Downloading, installing, and hosting an early version of the IMDB at the film library where I worked-- then keeping it up to date-- was my first foray into working with an internet app (other than email, TeX, and gal-trader on a Vax terminal). I thought Col Needham was a Colonel and had no clue what I was doing, but the buzz from that experience put me gently on the path to learning skills that could feed and clothe myself and my children (unlike my creative writing, literature, and philosophy degrees)...
Talking about the content of "blogs" is as ridiculous as talking about the content of "books"-- as if there is something meaningful that can be generalized about the group. There's a boatload of bad writing on blogs just as there are in the pages of the journals in Gorman's hallowed halls of periodicals. There's also a lot of great writing to be found in both places.
Gorman is responding to a select group of bloggers who chose to attack him because he doesn't think Google should be nominated for sainthood. I think he underestimates the power of searching and random access...
But the real sadness here for those of us who love libraries (I do, and I support them by using them and contributing financially) is that he unfortunately represents a very real and powerful part of the administrative apparatus of most libraries. These people don't understand that the roles of libraries, repositories, and librarians are radically changing. I don't mind the whining of the fossils-- I even appreciate a bit of the productive tension between the white-gloved, shhhh-ing blue-hairs and the stinking rabble of the Internet-- but I feel for the younger set getting their relatively useless Library Science education at institutions run by the traditionalists. They might as well get a degree in phrenology or alchemy...
Though if you think it is, you clearly do need some kind of help. Get thee to the nearest chain bookstore and reach out blindly for Dr. Phil.
Great example. I'm definitely glad Perl managed to avoid the trap of bloat and creeping featurism so well!
Yeah, because of COURSE Google must be limited to only one joke! It's in the April Fool's Day manual!