And then there's the frightening possiblility of a world-wide revolution against the US.
I suspect that won't be a violent revolution, just a gradual turning of backs. I'm British, and before Bush came to power it was a common argument - you'd often see it in newspapers etc. - that we should resist further integration into the EU because it would damage our relationship with the US. You very rarely hear that argument any more.
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Presumably this group wants Google to get it right before it's released to the public! Which seems fair enough to me. Isn't that what being in beta is for?
100 000 xserve G5 (Virginia tech made it clear they didn't get any deal so why Google would) can reach between 299 million and 579 million US dollar
Not a bad point, but surely Google has a lot more leverage even than Virginia Tech. In fact, if I were Steve Jobs I think I'd be very tempted to give them 100,000 XServes for free, in exchange for a link at the bottom of every page saying "powered by Apple XServe".
1) a huge flashing banner saying "SAVE !!! BUY YOUR NEXT COMPUTER FROM US!!!" which you have to click past to get to the article you want to read.
2) a small link beside the article saying "large selection of bare-bones systems from 39 inc shipping"
I for one would NEVER follow the former link. I might well click on the latter. So it's more effective and less annoying. Actually, more effective because it's less annoying.
(On an unrelated note, why does Slashdot strip out pound signs??)
But if I send email to you, how can I be sure my mail won't end up in Google's eternal archives by way of forwarding, complete with email addresses, host ip addresses, exact time, etc.?
Troll. You can't be sure of that now - I could very easily put your email up on a web page. If you have something that private to say, don't go distributing electronic copies of it!
I think we need to draw a distinction between being read by a script and read by a person. I can live with my email being read by a script. In fact, I assume Yahoo! SpamGuard etc. already do that. I'd be uncomfortable to think of a person at Google Labs reading my mail, but they're going to have such vast quantities of the stuff flowing through their system I can't imagine they'd ever do that unless I gave them a really good reason to.
My favourite BitTorrent client uses them. Never seen them properly used anywhere else, but I like the fact it's now at least possible to make the point that you're using decimal multipliers. IMO the ideal would be to move to using "kilo", "mega" etc. in their SI senses and have new terms referring to binary multiples. But I suppose the crossover period would be prohibitively confusing, as when you saw a reference to "kb" or "Mb" you wouldn't know exactly how much data was being referred to. Oh, hang on.
This idiot troll (or one very much like him) has posted this complaint before. It's nonsense. The 2 "bogus/irrelevant" results are a site called "2Bee or Nottoobee" and one called "To Be Or Net To Be." That's clearly not irrelevant. Presumably people have been linking to these pages with "to be or not to be" and Google's picked up on it. In fact, I imagine a site which didn't feature the phrase at all could still come top of the list if enough people had read it and found it to be sufficiently valuable and relevant to that phrase to be worth linking to. Personally I think this is a major strength of Google: it finds things which are relevant even if the pages themselves don't emphasise your search term.
If this troll wants to be taken seriously he needs to come back and explain precisely how the current system is causing him problems. "It should be able to do a plain-text search" is not a meaningful complaint.
Word doesn't produce pdf files because thats not really a word processor format
Adobe Acrobat installs a virtual PDF printer so you can create PDFs from any application; and for Word in particular it goes so far as to add an "export to PDF" button right onto the toolbar. In other words, it is very easy to create PDFs from Word. I guess there must be some other reason why Word wasn't used for this task.
Nonsense. The British citizens who have been detained were visiting Afghanistan, but that doesn't make them Afghanistani any more than I'd be French if I were caught speeding in Calais. The British citizens who were taken to Guantanamo Bay all hold British passports, which is why the US has - after holding them for over two years without charge - returned some of them to the UK and not to Afghanistan. (The rest it continues to hold without charge, without evidence and without access to legal representation.) Stop me if any of this is inaccurate.
this isn't like in the old days... where if you screw up, you lose only a disk worth of data - with this, if you screw up, you lose a _disk worth_ of data.
They seem increasingly to be called "pen-drives", but I wish they weren't because I've never seen one that looked remotely like a pen. Then again, they do look a bit like pen-knives (which of course don't look like pens either).
Anyway, I can't be doing with them because my USB ports are at the back of my tower which is under my desk, while my CD-writer is at the front and my iPod sits on top. If you ask me they should ship them with little USB extender cables.
Actually, Office 2003 puts its icons in a nicely unobtrusive submenu off the main Programs menu. But I think that's new - so far as I know all previous versions were like "oh, I so important!"
Of course the ink is patented; but it's still just basic ink, and any reputable supplier will make stuff as good as, or better, than the original manufacturer.
Fair point in general, but actually not the case with Tektronix (who made the particular printer the original poster was referring to). These chaps make high-end colour printers that don't just squirt CMYK ink onto the page - they actually generate "ink" of the desired colour on the fly by melting tiny amounts of coloured waxes together, then applying the mixture to the paper, where it dries. The result is very nice solid blocks of pure colour, but it's obviously a precision process which needs the wax to stay at exactly the right consistency for exactly the right length of time at a particular temperature. It's easy to imagine that another company trying to replicate the Tektronix wax formula would end up with something very nearly the same, but it will almost certainly solidify very slightly more quickly - or very slightly more slowly - than the official shizzle, increasing the risk of congealed wax ending up in unwanted places and clogging the mechanism.
I know how you feel - there's an Epson Stylus printer at work that uses four separate colour cartridges and refuses to print if any of the colours is empty. So if you've run out of Cyan, you have to install a new Cyan cartridge before you can print your page of black text. There can't possibly be any technical or logical justification for this - they're very clearly just trying to force their customers to keep buying new cartridges. It stinks, and I certainly won't be buying Epson in the future.
My personal printer is an HP, and they seem to be a bit less brazen about this sort of thing. Admittedly their cartridges are expensive, but my local supermarket does compatibles for a fiver (about the price of two cappuccinos), so as far as I'm concerned HP can make up whatever stupid price they want for the official ones.
Dude, telling lies to raise your stocks isn't a performative act. A major point of Austin's speech act theory is that illocutionary acts are inherently actions, as distinct from constative statements that may simply provoke a desired response. Chapter Ten of How to do Things with Words[1] is entitled "In saying..." v. "By saying..." and makes the distinction pretty clear. It is not correct to say that "in telling lies, Darl raised the stock price of SCO," though it would be fine to say "in telling lies, Darl forwent the moral high ground." It is correct to say that "by telling lies, Darl raised the stock price of SCO," but that doesn't describe an illocutionary act any more than "by reading Austin carefully I came to understand the difference between perlocution and illocution."
Sorry, am I taking this a bit too seriously?:)
[1] J.L. Austin, How to do Things with Words (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1975) 121-32.
I dunno about shift-click, but I just click the little wheel on my mouse on a link and Mozilla opens it in a new tab. Which I (personally) think is way friendlier...
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And then there's the frightening possiblility of a world-wide revolution against the US.
I suspect that won't be a violent revolution, just a gradual turning of backs. I'm British, and before Bush came to power it was a common argument - you'd often see it in newspapers etc. - that we should resist further integration into the EU because it would damage our relationship with the US. You very rarely hear that argument any more.
YW.
Presumably this group wants Google to get it right before it's released to the public! Which seems fair enough to me. Isn't that what being in beta is for?
100 000 xserve G5 (Virginia tech made it clear they didn't get any deal so why Google would) can reach between 299 million and 579 million US dollar
Not a bad point, but surely Google has a lot more leverage even than Virginia Tech. In fact, if I were Steve Jobs I think I'd be very tempted to give them 100,000 XServes for free, in exchange for a link at the bottom of every page saying "powered by Apple XServe".
Compare:
1) a huge flashing banner saying "SAVE !!! BUY YOUR NEXT COMPUTER FROM US!!!" which you have to click past to get to the article you want to read.
2) a small link beside the article saying "large selection of bare-bones systems from 39 inc shipping"
I for one would NEVER follow the former link. I might well click on the latter. So it's more effective and less annoying. Actually, more effective because it's less annoying.
(On an unrelated note, why does Slashdot strip out pound signs??)
But if I send email to you, how can I be sure my mail won't end up in Google's eternal archives by way of forwarding, complete with email addresses, host ip addresses, exact time, etc.?
Troll. You can't be sure of that now - I could very easily put your email up on a web page. If you have something that private to say, don't go distributing electronic copies of it!
Yep, in emulating the Microsoft look and feel, they're also emulating the Microsoft design methodology... :)
I think we need to draw a distinction between being read by a script and read by a person. I can live with my email being read by a script. In fact, I assume Yahoo! SpamGuard etc. already do that. I'd be uncomfortable to think of a person at Google Labs reading my mail, but they're going to have such vast quantities of the stuff flowing through their system I can't imagine they'd ever do that unless I gave them a really good reason to.
My favourite BitTorrent client uses them. Never seen them properly used anywhere else, but I like the fact it's now at least possible to make the point that you're using decimal multipliers. IMO the ideal would be to move to using "kilo", "mega" etc. in their SI senses and have new terms referring to binary multiples. But I suppose the crossover period would be prohibitively confusing, as when you saw a reference to "kb" or "Mb" you wouldn't know exactly how much data was being referred to. Oh, hang on.
Informative??
This idiot troll (or one very much like him) has posted this complaint before. It's nonsense. The 2 "bogus/irrelevant" results are a site called "2Bee or Nottoobee" and one called "To Be Or Net To Be." That's clearly not irrelevant. Presumably people have been linking to these pages with "to be or not to be" and Google's picked up on it. In fact, I imagine a site which didn't feature the phrase at all could still come top of the list if enough people had read it and found it to be sufficiently valuable and relevant to that phrase to be worth linking to. Personally I think this is a major strength of Google: it finds things which are relevant even if the pages themselves don't emphasise your search term.
If this troll wants to be taken seriously he needs to come back and explain precisely how the current system is causing him problems. "It should be able to do a plain-text search" is not a meaningful complaint.
Word doesn't produce pdf files because thats not really a word processor format
Adobe Acrobat installs a virtual PDF printer so you can create PDFs from any application; and for Word in particular it goes so far as to add an "export to PDF" button right onto the toolbar. In other words, it is very easy to create PDFs from Word. I guess there must be some other reason why Word wasn't used for this task.
Subjunctive is a mood, not a tense. Ha.
Nonsense. The British citizens who have been detained were visiting Afghanistan, but that doesn't make them Afghanistani any more than I'd be French if I were caught speeding in Calais. The British citizens who were taken to Guantanamo Bay all hold British passports, which is why the US has - after holding them for over two years without charge - returned some of them to the UK and not to Afghanistan. (The rest it continues to hold without charge, without evidence and without access to legal representation.) Stop me if any of this is inaccurate.
Obviously you haven't been browsing ThinkGeek.
;)
Ah, now there's a put-down.
this isn't like in the old days ... where if you screw up, you lose only a disk worth of data - with this, if you screw up, you lose a _disk worth_ of data.
(I love this distinction.)
True that, but oy were they slooow with HD disks...
They seem increasingly to be called "pen-drives", but I wish they weren't because I've never seen one that looked remotely like a pen. Then again, they do look a bit like pen-knives (which of course don't look like pens either).
Anyway, I can't be doing with them because my USB ports are at the back of my tower which is under my desk, while my CD-writer is at the front and my iPod sits on top. If you ask me they should ship them with little USB extender cables.
Actually, Office 2003 puts its icons in a nicely unobtrusive submenu off the main Programs menu. But I think that's new - so far as I know all previous versions were like "oh, I so important!"
Of course the ink is patented; but it's still just basic ink, and any reputable supplier will make stuff as good as, or better, than the original manufacturer.
Fair point in general, but actually not the case with Tektronix (who made the particular printer the original poster was referring to). These chaps make high-end colour printers that don't just squirt CMYK ink onto the page - they actually generate "ink" of the desired colour on the fly by melting tiny amounts of coloured waxes together, then applying the mixture to the paper, where it dries. The result is very nice solid blocks of pure colour, but it's obviously a precision process which needs the wax to stay at exactly the right consistency for exactly the right length of time at a particular temperature. It's easy to imagine that another company trying to replicate the Tektronix wax formula would end up with something very nearly the same, but it will almost certainly solidify very slightly more quickly - or very slightly more slowly - than the official shizzle, increasing the risk of congealed wax ending up in unwanted places and clogging the mechanism.
I know how you feel - there's an Epson Stylus printer at work that uses four separate colour cartridges and refuses to print if any of the colours is empty. So if you've run out of Cyan, you have to install a new Cyan cartridge before you can print your page of black text. There can't possibly be any technical or logical justification for this - they're very clearly just trying to force their customers to keep buying new cartridges. It stinks, and I certainly won't be buying Epson in the future.
My personal printer is an HP, and they seem to be a bit less brazen about this sort of thing. Admittedly their cartridges are expensive, but my local supermarket does compatibles for a fiver (about the price of two cappuccinos), so as far as I'm concerned HP can make up whatever stupid price they want for the official ones.
If this is an allusion to "Die Bart Die", it's one of the most obscure Simpsons references I've ever (knowingly) seen...
Dude, telling lies to raise your stocks isn't a performative act. A major point of Austin's speech act theory is that illocutionary acts are inherently actions, as distinct from constative statements that may simply provoke a desired response. Chapter Ten of How to do Things with Words[1] is entitled "In saying..." v. "By saying..." and makes the distinction pretty clear. It is not correct to say that "in telling lies, Darl raised the stock price of SCO," though it would be fine to say "in telling lies, Darl forwent the moral high ground." It is correct to say that "by telling lies, Darl raised the stock price of SCO," but that doesn't describe an illocutionary act any more than "by reading Austin carefully I came to understand the difference between perlocution and illocution."
:)
Sorry, am I taking this a bit too seriously?
[1] J.L. Austin, How to do Things with Words (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1975) 121-32.
I'll have to flee Europa as well.
You live here? Yeah, I'd probably flee too, before the RIAJ caught me...
I dunno about shift-click, but I just click the little wheel on my mouse on a link and Mozilla opens it in a new tab. Which I (personally) think is way friendlier...