Another Google feature invented more for its coolness factor than for its utility. Meanwhile, Google maps still lacks the most basic online maps feature: bookmarked locations. Yes, there's the weird feature that calls up old destinations if you can remember some part of the address. But I want a simple drop down list. Not hard to implement. Which is why Google doesn't have it — nobody there finds the chore challenging enough.
I used to be the worst kind of Google fanboy, orgasmic at their every little accomplishment. But nobody there seems to want to do the scutwork that that turns a collection of cool features into a real product. It's lame.
Oh yeah, and when are they going to fix those stupid bugs in the Firefox version of the Google toolbar?
The last time I ranted on this subject, I mentioned that I still used Yahoo maps some of the time because I sometimes needed features (like the bookmarks) that Google lacked. People sneered at me, pointing out stuff like Yahoo still using forms to enter addresses. Well guess what? Yahoo maps no longer uses forms either. And they zoom in and out the same way Google does. And their traffic reports are better. In fact, they've copied Google Maps feature for feature, and in many cases improved on them. Guess how often I used Google Maps now?
i guess you entered that post on your cell phone maybe you dont realize how lame and illiterate that message makes you look also inconsiderate its really hard to parse i hope you didn't enter it while driving
More proof that the mod system is broken: you're the second person to use the generalization fallacy, and yet instead of being modded "redundant" you're "insightful".
Dude, 20 perfectly working X-Boxes does not tell you anything about the average overall quality of the product, especially when the sample is non-random.
How many is "several"? Unless you have a couple thousand friends with X-boxes, your data is meaningless. And there's also the little detail that the dude is an extreme game nerd. If it's environment, why haven't any of his other consoles had similar problems?
Did that doctor speak with a Russian accent? He seems to have gone to a med school where they still teach Lysenkoism. Or maybe he's just as ignorant of how evolution works as many ordinary people — in which case I have to wonder how he got in to medical school.
I've been hearing the four-toes-is-the-future theory a lot lately. On Lost, there's a giant four-toed stone foot, and apparently the missing little toe is supposed to be a hint that the thing is from the future.
I guess that's how most people understand evolution: genes that are "better" are the ones that survive, even if it's just for a foot configuration that makes it easier to find comfortable shoes. But that's not how it works. Your genes survive because you're good at passing them on, by surviving better, or by having lots of kids, or by helping maintain a kin group that shares a lot of your genes.
I think crappy science teachers have to take a lot of blame for this kind of ignorance — and thus for the popularity of pseudo-scientific theories such as ID.
Ah, the old debate: is Zonk stupid or clever? Does he write lame headlines because he doesn't know any better or because it attracts attention? Is he Zippy the Pinhead or Bill O'Reilly?
Personally, I happen to think that Bill O'Reilly is Zippy the Pinhead, so it's a moot point.
Actually, the school district is under pressure to provide facilities for another, more successful charter school (Summit Prep) that's outgrown it's current campus. (RTFA) That's why they bought the campus, to turn over to Summit. Which does indeed kind of rub HTH's students in it.
Please. Your take a closure of a single charter school and turn it into a simple-minded condemnation of technology in education. Is there my indication that High Tech Bayshore did a bad job? Oh the contrary, all their grads are going on to college. And the same organization is operating many other successful "High Tech"' charters. This particular charter just didn't work out, as many new charters do.
Idiots like you keep shouting "Technology is not a educational panacea!" Dude, everybody knows that. But it's met irrelevant either. It's an important part of 21st century life. Every college track student needs to graduate knowing how to do online research, how to use scientific software, how to read well content critically, and a lot more. Besides, anything that gets students motivated and engaged is a positive thing -- and tech is pretty good at that.
For some reason, educational debates always end up being about extremes. High tech versus low tech. Phonics versus "whole word" reading. Creativity versus drill. In the real world, learning is complicated, and every student is different. So spare us the Great Pronouncements.
Nonsense. The CIA has never been a just a "tool." They've had a remarkable ability to control events. During the cold war, the CIA was where the anti-commie zealots went to work. And these guys never were content to let their superiors set the agenda.
No government agency consists of people who "just follow orders". If nothing else, they need to come up with ways to justify their paychecks and grow their power base. And of course, civil servants often seriously believe in what they're doing -- sometimes much more so than the political appointees who supposedly call the shots.
The thing has a built in cooling system. Supposedly it just needs a water hookup. But apparently the water has to be a certain temperature. Hence the chiller, which won't be needed until central California's August heat wave.
Actually, that's not a cheap shot at all. Sun is no longer a SPARC-only shop. I write docs for Sun's x64 servers, and many customers do use them as graphics workstations. It's the old "visualization" marketplace that used to be dominated by SGI supercomputers with graphic front ends.
One big problem is that all of Sun's latest servers emphasize low power consumption. That means PCI slots that don't support power-hungry graphics cards. You get around this by clustering the server with an x64 workstation (which Sun will be glad to sell you) or with a third party PCI extender.
Such a setup would indeed run Aero. But I rather doubt that any actually do.
Yeah, if we didn't have a silly-sounding neologism that nobody uses to describe the distinction, nobody could possibly distinguish between "improvisational engineering" from "computer crime".
This site is just Microsoft aggregating listings from other web sites, such as CNET. A typical brand exploitation exercise, which has essentially nothing to do with the product the product the brand ("Windows" in this case) originally applied to. Ironic, but no relevance to the climate of Hell.
God, I can't believe the crap that gets modded up as "insightful". Though to be fair, one moderator labeled your post "funny", which it sort of is, but probably not intentionally.
Do a little math. A plasma TV costs at most $5K. No sane banker would touch a second mortgage for such a piddling amount.
I thought, "Hey, yet another attempt to blame computer crime on people from Georgia. Where is this politically correct BS coming from?"
Then I remembered that for some time now, some people who think of themselves as "hackers" (in the original sense of the word) have played language nazi every time they've heard the more popular use of the word. "No!" they exclaim. "You mean cracker!"
This ignores two important linguistic principles:
Words can have more than one meaning. You're supposed to figure out which one from context.
You can't just coin a new word and expect people to use it in place of an existing well-established word. Especially when the coinage is so lame.
Ifconfig is hardly a good example of a BSD-specific feature -- every Linux and Unix has it.
I was talking about things like the directory hierarchy (totally reworked for OS X) and the huge number of command line administrative tools that Apple has added (necessary to provide command-line equivalents for their GUI tools). These are major additions to the OS.
You ignore all this and point to a minor thing like ifconfig and say, "See! It's still BSD!" That's like saying two cars are the same because they both have the same kind of windshield wipers.
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Another Google feature invented more for its coolness factor than for its utility. Meanwhile, Google maps still lacks the most basic online maps feature: bookmarked locations. Yes, there's the weird feature that calls up old destinations if you can remember some part of the address. But I want a simple drop down list. Not hard to implement. Which is why Google doesn't have it — nobody there finds the chore challenging enough.
I used to be the worst kind of Google fanboy, orgasmic at their every little accomplishment. But nobody there seems to want to do the scutwork that that turns a collection of cool features into a real product. It's lame.
Oh yeah, and when are they going to fix those stupid bugs in the Firefox version of the Google toolbar?
The last time I ranted on this subject, I mentioned that I still used Yahoo maps some of the time because I sometimes needed features (like the bookmarks) that Google lacked. People sneered at me, pointing out stuff like Yahoo still using forms to enter addresses. Well guess what? Yahoo maps no longer uses forms either. And they zoom in and out the same way Google does. And their traffic reports are better. In fact, they've copied Google Maps feature for feature, and in many cases improved on them. Guess how often I used Google Maps now?
i guess you entered that post on your cell phone maybe you dont realize how lame and illiterate that message makes you look also inconsiderate its really hard to parse i hope you didn't enter it while driving
More proof that the mod system is broken: you're the second person to use the generalization fallacy, and yet instead of being modded "redundant" you're "insightful".
Dude, 20 perfectly working X-Boxes does not tell you anything about the average overall quality of the product, especially when the sample is non-random.
How many is "several"? Unless you have a couple thousand friends with X-boxes, your data is meaningless. And there's also the little detail that the dude is an extreme game nerd. If it's environment, why haven't any of his other consoles had similar problems?
Did that doctor speak with a Russian accent? He seems to have gone to a med school where they still teach Lysenkoism. Or maybe he's just as ignorant of how evolution works as many ordinary people — in which case I have to wonder how he got in to medical school.
I've been hearing the four-toes-is-the-future theory a lot lately. On Lost, there's a giant four-toed stone foot, and apparently the missing little toe is supposed to be a hint that the thing is from the future.
I guess that's how most people understand evolution: genes that are "better" are the ones that survive, even if it's just for a foot configuration that makes it easier to find comfortable shoes. But that's not how it works. Your genes survive because you're good at passing them on, by surviving better, or by having lots of kids, or by helping maintain a kin group that shares a lot of your genes.
I think crappy science teachers have to take a lot of blame for this kind of ignorance — and thus for the popularity of pseudo-scientific theories such as ID.
So you're against public education? Teaching children entails deciding what to teach them.
... how do you explain the fact that your finger is exactly the right diameter for sticking up your nose?
Actually, I've submitted about 30 stories and had maybe 5 of them accepted. Usually, the headline gets rewritten.
No, I'm, saying Bill O'Reilly secretly dresses up as a clown.
So Zonk's real name is Maurice?
Ah, the old debate: is Zonk stupid or clever? Does he write lame headlines because he doesn't know any better or because it attracts attention? Is he Zippy the Pinhead or Bill O'Reilly?
Personally, I happen to think that Bill O'Reilly is Zippy the Pinhead, so it's a moot point.
Actually, the school district is under pressure to provide facilities for another, more successful charter school (Summit Prep) that's outgrown it's current campus. (RTFA) That's why they bought the campus, to turn over to Summit. Which does indeed kind of rub HTH's students in it.
Please. Your take a closure of a single charter school and turn it into a simple-minded condemnation of technology in education. Is there my indication that High Tech Bayshore did a bad job? Oh the contrary, all their grads are going on to college. And the same organization is operating many other successful "High Tech"' charters. This particular charter just didn't work out, as many new charters do.
Idiots like you keep shouting "Technology is not a educational panacea!" Dude, everybody knows that. But it's met irrelevant either. It's an important part of 21st century life. Every college track student needs to graduate knowing how to do online research, how to use scientific software, how to read well content critically, and a lot more. Besides, anything that gets students motivated and engaged is a positive thing -- and tech is pretty good at that.
For some reason, educational debates always end up being about extremes. High tech versus low tech. Phonics versus "whole word" reading. Creativity versus drill. In the real world, learning is complicated, and every student is different. So spare us the Great Pronouncements.
Nonsense. The CIA has never been a just a "tool." They've had a remarkable ability to control events. During the cold war, the CIA was where the anti-commie zealots went to work. And these guys never were content to let their superiors set the agenda.
No government agency consists of people who "just follow orders". If nothing else, they need to come up with ways to justify their paychecks and grow their power base. And of course, civil servants often seriously believe in what they're doing -- sometimes much more so than the political appointees who supposedly call the shots.
The thing has a built in cooling system. Supposedly it just needs a water hookup. But apparently the water has to be a certain temperature. Hence the chiller, which won't be needed until central California's August heat wave.
Actually, that's not a cheap shot at all. Sun is no longer a SPARC-only shop. I write docs for Sun's x64 servers, and many customers do use them as graphics workstations. It's the old "visualization" marketplace that used to be dominated by SGI supercomputers with graphic front ends.
One big problem is that all of Sun's latest servers emphasize low power consumption. That means PCI slots that don't support power-hungry graphics cards. You get around this by clustering the server with an x64 workstation (which Sun will be glad to sell you) or with a third party PCI extender.
Such a setup would indeed run Aero. But I rather doubt that any actually do.
Yeah, if we didn't have a silly-sounding neologism that nobody uses to describe the distinction, nobody could possibly distinguish between "improvisational engineering" from "computer crime".
There's still a ton of Linux and Linux-related products on Windows Marketplace:
x t=linux&tabid=1
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/results.aspx?te
This site is just Microsoft aggregating listings from other web sites, such as CNET. A typical brand exploitation exercise, which has essentially nothing to do with the product the product the brand ("Windows" in this case) originally applied to. Ironic, but no relevance to the climate of Hell.
God, I can't believe the crap that gets modded up as "insightful". Though to be fair, one moderator labeled your post "funny", which it sort of is, but probably not intentionally.
Do a little math. A plasma TV costs at most $5K. No sane banker would touch a second mortgage for such a piddling amount.
Then I remembered that for some time now, some people who think of themselves as "hackers" (in the original sense of the word) have played language nazi every time they've heard the more popular use of the word. "No!" they exclaim. "You mean cracker!"
This ignores two important linguistic principles:
Ifconfig is hardly a good example of a BSD-specific feature -- every Linux and Unix has it.
I was talking about things like the directory hierarchy (totally reworked for OS X) and the huge number of command line administrative tools that Apple has added (necessary to provide command-line equivalents for their GUI tools). These are major additions to the OS.
You ignore all this and point to a minor thing like ifconfig and say, "See! It's still BSD!" That's like saying two cars are the same because they both have the same kind of windshield wipers.
Does the term "figure of speech" mean anything to you? Obviously not.