Google is "selling" you something. Something very real. Ads. You may not notice them, b/k like most of us (and me) you tune them out. But that little sidebar we ignore is Google's bottom line. You may never click on it, same as I'll never buy a Hummer even though the ads are on the Tv shows I watch, but we are all paying for it. Buy anything from anyone who advertises with Google, and you are paying for Google.
They're no different, or more innovative, than Yahoo was in 1995.
actually, google didn't come up with the word
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
google:
intr. Of the ball: to have a 'googly' break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence googler, a googly bowler.
1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having 'googled' to no purpose from the 'nursery' end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also 'googled'. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it.
And...
obs. form of GOGGLE a. and v.1
I. 1. a. intr. Of persons: To turn the eyes to one side or other, to look obliquely, to squint; also to goggle with the eyes and to goggle at (a thing). In later use, to look with widely-opened, unsteady eyes; to roll the eyes about.
That one dates back to 1380.
Who decides how and why and when a word changes its meaning? The speakers of the language.
It'd be great to run BeOS on a G4, except, of course, that Apple never released specs for the G3 and G4 chips (despite requests from Be for the tech info).
Apple did this to keep BeOS off Mac hardware, to protect Apple's OS. But how different is it from what Microsoft did?
the specs for the proton can be found here: http://www.russianspace.com/proton.html Yey, from what I understand it uses external boosters for the first stage, which I guess accounts for the lack of oxidation you observed. The Russians should get more credit for their launch technology; the Proton is larger and more reliable than anything Americans have. I agree, it makes me queasy too; what if Microsoft or Nike decide to fund a trip to Mars? Imagine the press...and the scary part is the technology is there. We're lucky companies have lousy imaginations.
It's also worth noting that the independent film The Last Broadcast (oft compared to Blair Witch) was also distributed digitally last year to about 10 theaters across the country. I saw it in one and it rocked. from their website (http://tebweb.com/lastbroadcast/): The Last Broadcast was one of the first feature films to be cut entirely on a consumer-desktop PC. Using Adobe Premiere (and other audio/video processing software when needed), the filmmakers were able to create a broadcast quality image at a low price. In October of 1998, it made history when it became the first feature film to be theatrically released digitally via satellite to theaters across the U.S.... no celluloid!
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Google is "selling" you something. Something very real. Ads. You may not notice them, b/k like most of us (and me) you tune them out. But that little sidebar we ignore is Google's bottom line. You may never click on it, same as I'll never buy a Hummer even though the ads are on the Tv shows I watch, but we are all paying for it. Buy anything from anyone who advertises with Google, and you are paying for Google.
They're no different, or more innovative, than Yahoo was in 1995.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
google:
intr. Of the ball: to have a 'googly' break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence googler, a googly bowler.
1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having 'googled' to no purpose from the 'nursery' end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also 'googled'. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it.
And...
obs. form of GOGGLE a. and v.1
I. 1. a. intr. Of persons: To turn the eyes to one side or other, to look obliquely, to squint; also to goggle with the eyes and to goggle at (a thing). In later use, to look with widely-opened, unsteady eyes; to roll the eyes about.
That one dates back to 1380.
Who decides how and why and when a word changes its meaning? The speakers of the language.
It'd be great to run BeOS on a G4, except, of course, that Apple never released specs for the G3 and G4 chips (despite requests from Be for the tech info).
Apple did this to keep BeOS off Mac hardware, to protect Apple's OS. But how different is it from what Microsoft did?
Maybe the state of Maine is trying to prevent kids from turning into 2nd year NMU students when they grow up.
the specs for the proton can be found here: http://www.russianspace.com/proton.html Yey, from what I understand it uses external boosters for the first stage, which I guess accounts for the lack of oxidation you observed. The Russians should get more credit for their launch technology; the Proton is larger and more reliable than anything Americans have. I agree, it makes me queasy too; what if Microsoft or Nike decide to fund a trip to Mars? Imagine the press...and the scary part is the technology is there. We're lucky companies have lousy imaginations.
It's also worth noting that the independent film The Last Broadcast (oft compared to Blair Witch) was also distributed digitally last year to about 10 theaters across the country. I saw it in one and it rocked. from their website (http://tebweb.com/lastbroadcast/): The Last Broadcast was one of the first feature films to be cut entirely on a consumer-desktop PC. Using Adobe Premiere (and other audio/video processing software when needed), the filmmakers were able to create a broadcast quality image at a low price. In October of 1998, it made history when it became the first feature film to be theatrically released digitally via satellite to theaters across the U.S. ... no celluloid!