Before Yahoo got to the point where they could "dump" Google, they bought up Inktomi, their old search engine results provider before Google and Overture, the biggest pay per click ad distributor next to Google in order get to the point that they could even compete with Google.
As far as relevancy is concerned, think about how relevant MSN's search results were and you've got an understanding for Inktomi's results-- MSN relied on them for their base result set (after the overture/looksmart advertisements).
But here's the key-- Yahoo picked up Overture, who had just purchased both Altavista AND AllTheWeb-- Altavista used to be a killer search engine, and AllTheWeb is the best, most relevant search engine next to Google.. so Yahoo has really got a fighting chance here. Good news for competition. But the fact that Yahoo had to purchase up so many assets is just a sign to how strong Google is.
Dood your right, that level *was* intense!!! But the caverns was the only one I could never beat:( I didn't get to check out the bonus levels because I never beat it on 00 agent mode:(
Its ok though heh. But yes, Goldeneye owned... hmm... I just found my n64 the other day, mabye its time to find a used copy for cheap and have some fun? or mabye emulated?:P
Yes, SINGLE-SHOT KILL (or licensed to kill mode) IS THE BEST!
Seriously, the parent poster must have not given it a good try-- my brothers and I played golden eye deathmatch CONSTANTLY and we loved it! Whats more insane is that we never even owned the game, we just kept renting it hehe. I beat every level on 00 agent mode except for the caverns-- that level was so.. fricking.. insane.
I used to cheat on the cradle level-- you could quickly run past all the guards and get to the bottom area where your supposed to "jump off" and the main boss would quickly kill himself with grenades. But the caverns level.. way.. to.. hard.:)
I looked up and saw that noone had mentioned this, and its worth mentioning:
The #1 reason I can see for GC-Linux is EMULATION.
Imagine being able to sit on your couch and play all your game roms with your WAVEBIRD ahhhhh that would be nice wouldn't it? XBOX users have this luxury (without the wavebird) and soon GC owners will too!
Already there is emulation on the GC with pirated roms from what I've read-- they managed to reverse engineer the N64 emulator that was used on the zelda demo disk and the NES emulator used for Metroid on the Metroid Prime disk. Insane!
Besides emulation theres mp3 playing through the network, web views (where a self-refreshing webpage is pre-made with say.. local news and weather, and you point your GC at it and leave it on your TV or pick it from a menu a la HTPC), mabye divx playback through the network as well? Who knows!
But once you've dropped an OS that everyone can code applications for onto the GC the possibilites are endless. I'd like to see some kind of insane multiplayer addon where games that don't take advantage of the broadband adapter are somehow made compatible with it.
Eh? See its not "just for fun" or "because we can".. its really "because we can't let XBOXers have all the fun.. and those PS2 blokes as well"
A factory. Exactly- unfortunately these types of jobs can be moved. Service industries like legal, consulting, media, etc will always need local IT-- look into it.
just an fyi, Paris did know what Wal-Mart was, she said in a recent interview that she knew what Walmart was, but the producers had strongly encouraged them to say dumb things.
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heh, it speaks!
I was trying to make up for the all caps GOOGLE in the url;) -- oh yeah and give me the line on the "florida" update eh?
keep up the good work!
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This link will let you in without the registration:
I think spam is on its way out-- we recently integrated spamassassin into our email server and spam is a thing of the past. With programs like these being integrated on the ISP level now and in the future combined with individual email packages getting smarter about spam I think we can kill spam dead.
Atleast in email form. Instant message spam, cellphone text spam and of course..
So far we've seen people mention Grisoft's AVG (which I use at home), Avast, and even F-prot for DOS - but I haven't seen anyone mention this yet
Housecall - online virus scanner-- got someone who thinks they have a virus? Just send em to this site, while it doesn't prevent viruses, it will tell you if any show up! Its good in a pinch, and if you think your current virus scanner might be missing something.
I agree- HAM operators are some of the original hackers (and I mean before there were personal computers, or computers at all)-- what they are doing now with linux and packet radio and the internet blows me away-- I was running a wireless computer bulletin board over amateur radio long before 802.11 was a glint in an engineers eye.
"Containment structures" ?? They won't bother with those, there is no international community to worry about "on mars"- might as well just let it get radioactive over there:) Its not like the surface isn't already deadly to humans hehe./sarcasm
Actually there was a recent article talking about this guy who ran a summer camp for nudist teens.. it was in the news recently, anyways it went on to say that he sells **videos** of these things on his website-- apparently, unbelievably, its legal since its not sexually related!! WTF!?
In any case, apparently they interviewed some state attorney and he was saying that videos like these and nudist pictures are interspersed with "barely legal" photos to make "todays legal child porn site" so while I agree that nudists should be allowed to hell go naked whatever, well-- apparently their photos and videos are being used to promote child porn.. bad bad bad.:(
True but on my earthlink ISP there are usenet groups called a.b.p.erotica.pre-teen and stuff... and back in the day I remember specifically being shocked to see pedophilia usenet groups and pedo.male pedo.female type stuff!!! I don't see *that* kind of stuff today, but the pre-teen newsgroups remain:(.
There was actually a case at my high school where kids were downloading porn from newsgroups and selling the porn on CD to their friends-- they just blanketly downloaded a.b.p.erotica or something and sure enough some child-porn ended up on one of the CDs they sold-- a parent found the ONE cd with child porn on it, of all CDs and those kids got into some serious trouble.
Believe it or not, they succesfully argued that they "accidentally" downloaded the child porn amongst the other porn. Their argument was something like that they were downloading hundreds of thousands of files and it was impossible to look through each one of them to check before downloading them. Take solace in that if anything, but in reality you have to be very careful.
As far as ISPs actually *hosting* child porn on their servers, I think the same argument applies, its impossible to actually police each post... I don't know its always not set right with me... can someone please explain how Earthlink or AOL can even HAVE child porn newsgroups and stuff like that on there!? Its totally insane.
Here is an excerpt from an article about the situation... --- Tampa Tribune - Teens charged with selling porn
Police say the pair copied the material from the Internet and sold it to classmates.
Published on May 21, 1996
TAMPA -- The Information Superhighway turned into a Pandora's box Monday for at least two gifted Plant High School students.
Two students, both 15 and from Tampa, were arrested and charged with felony counts of distributing and selling pornography off the Internet to their underage classmates.
Both were released on their own recognizance Monday afternoon. It was uncertain if the two will be tried as adults.
I wish I had more of the article but Tampa Tribune's site won't give it up for free:)
Some may, but in truth it becomes people's "collection" or "hobby" -- e-penis if you will:)
So if you are someone who loves books and has a huge library in your home, wouldn't the idea of having thousands more on your computer seem appealing? As the anon poster pointed out, just having access to that much data is staggering.
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Don't forget the classic tale of Two IBM Drives!!
Heh.
Before Yahoo got to the point where they could "dump" Google, they bought up Inktomi, their old search engine results provider before Google and Overture, the biggest pay per click ad distributor next to Google in order get to the point that they could even compete with Google.
As far as relevancy is concerned, think about how relevant MSN's search results were and you've got an understanding for Inktomi's results-- MSN relied on them for their base result set (after the overture/looksmart advertisements).
But here's the key-- Yahoo picked up Overture, who had just purchased both Altavista AND AllTheWeb-- Altavista used to be a killer search engine, and AllTheWeb is the best, most relevant search engine next to Google.. so Yahoo has really got a fighting chance here. Good news for competition. But the fact that Yahoo had to purchase up so many assets is just a sign to how strong Google is.
Now, keep your eye on Microsoft.
Dood your right, that level *was* intense!!! But the caverns was the only one I could never beat :( I didn't get to check out the bonus levels because I never beat it on 00 agent mode :(
:P
Its ok though heh. But yes, Goldeneye owned... hmm... I just found my n64 the other day, mabye its time to find a used copy for cheap and have some fun? or mabye emulated?
Yes, SINGLE-SHOT KILL (or licensed to kill mode) IS THE BEST!
:)
Seriously, the parent poster must have not given it a good try-- my brothers and I played golden eye deathmatch CONSTANTLY and we loved it! Whats more insane is that we never even owned the game, we just kept renting it hehe. I beat every level on 00 agent mode except for the caverns-- that level was so.. fricking.. insane.
I used to cheat on the cradle level-- you could quickly run past all the guards and get to the bottom area where your supposed to "jump off" and the main boss would quickly kill himself with grenades. But the caverns level.. way.. to.. hard.
Artificial rain making operations may have caused a storm that nearly wiped out an English village in 1952.
I dunno guys this sounds kinda scary. I would be kinda apprehensive of the Nissan dealer down the street owning one of these. Wouldn't you?
I looked up and saw that noone had mentioned this, and its worth mentioning:
The #1 reason I can see for GC-Linux is EMULATION.
Imagine being able to sit on your couch and play all your game roms with your WAVEBIRD ahhhhh that would be nice wouldn't it? XBOX users have this luxury (without the wavebird) and soon GC owners will too!
Already there is emulation on the GC with pirated roms from what I've read-- they managed to reverse engineer the N64 emulator that was used on the zelda demo disk and the NES emulator used for Metroid on the Metroid Prime disk. Insane!
Besides emulation theres mp3 playing through the network, web views (where a self-refreshing webpage is pre-made with say.. local news and weather, and you point your GC at it and leave it on your TV or pick it from a menu a la HTPC), mabye divx playback through the network as well? Who knows!
But once you've dropped an OS that everyone can code applications for onto the GC the possibilites are endless. I'd like to see some kind of insane multiplayer addon where games that don't take advantage of the broadband adapter are somehow made compatible with it.
Eh? See its not "just for fun" or "because we can".. its really "because we can't let XBOXers have all the fun.. and those PS2 blokes as well"
A factory. Exactly- unfortunately these types of jobs can be moved. Service industries like legal, consulting, media, etc will always need local IT-- look into it.
Who could forget Joshua Pearson and Emergency Broadcast Network?? Some of the early pioneers of video scratching-
Catch some of their videos here http://www.guerrillanews.com/ebn/
How about... the TiCase from Dr. Bott? its the only case that matches the powerbook perfectly.. and stuff.
Oh so hott.
just an fyi, Paris did know what Wal-Mart was, she said in a recent interview that she knew what Walmart was, but the producers had strongly encouraged them to say dumb things.
heh, it speaks!
;) -- oh yeah and give me the line on the "florida" update eh?
I was trying to make up for the all caps GOOGLE in the url
keep up the good work!
This link will let you in without the registration:
u its/04modd.html?ex=1071118800&en=579e6cf0a57082db& ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
:)
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Thanks google
Don't forget Avant Browser! Its a MYIE2 style browser (based off of the ie browser engine). However it blows MyIE2 out of the water! Give it a try!
I think spam is on its way out-- we recently integrated spamassassin into our email server and spam is a thing of the past. With programs like these being integrated on the ISP level now and in the future combined with individual email packages getting smarter about spam I think we can kill spam dead.
:P Its becoming a problem. But now you can fight it!
Atleast in email form. Instant message spam, cellphone text spam and of course..
uhm uhm uhm... visit this hot pr0n site!
comment spam
Wow I think this the first time I've seen a PDF file with a "omg we've been slashdotted" notice pointing to a mirror site.
Hmmm.
If you'll notice, Athlon 64s and Opteron's get rid of this stupid design (finally) and offer screw in heatsinks. THANK GOD!
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So far we've seen people mention Grisoft's AVG (which I use at home), Avast, and even F-prot for DOS - but I haven't seen anyone mention this yet
Housecall - online virus scanner-- got someone who thinks they have a virus? Just send em to this site, while it doesn't prevent viruses, it will tell you if any show up! Its good in a pinch, and if you think your current virus scanner might be missing something.
Yeah I thought the map was just a map of outtages in general, not just because of the power outtage.
I agree- HAM operators are some of the original hackers (and I mean before there were personal computers, or computers at all)-- what they are doing now with linux and packet radio and the internet blows me away-- I was running a wireless computer bulletin board over amateur radio long before 802.11 was a glint in an engineers eye.
"Containment structures" ?? They won't bother with those, there is no international community to worry about "on mars"- might as well just let it get radioactive over there :) Its not like the surface isn't already deadly to humans hehe. /sarcasm
Actually there was a recent article talking about this guy who ran a summer camp for nudist teens.. it was in the news recently, anyways it went on to say that he sells **videos** of these things on his website-- apparently, unbelievably, its legal since its not sexually related!! WTF!?
:(
In any case, apparently they interviewed some state attorney and he was saying that videos like these and nudist pictures are interspersed with "barely legal" photos to make "todays legal child porn site" so while I agree that nudists should be allowed to hell go naked whatever, well-- apparently their photos and videos are being used to promote child porn.. bad bad bad.
True but on my earthlink ISP there are usenet groups called a.b.p.erotica.pre-teen and stuff... and back in the day I remember specifically being shocked to see pedophilia usenet groups and pedo.male pedo.female type stuff!!! I don't see *that* kind of stuff today, but the pre-teen newsgroups remain :(.
There was actually a case at my high school where kids were downloading porn from newsgroups and selling the porn on CD to their friends-- they just blanketly downloaded a.b.p.erotica or something and sure enough some child-porn ended up on one of the CDs they sold-- a parent found the ONE cd with child porn on it, of all CDs and those kids got into some serious trouble.
:)
Believe it or not, they succesfully argued that they "accidentally" downloaded the child porn amongst the other porn. Their argument was something like that they were downloading hundreds of thousands of files and it was impossible to look through each one of them to check before downloading them. Take solace in that if anything, but in reality you have to be very careful.
As far as ISPs actually *hosting* child porn on their servers, I think the same argument applies, its impossible to actually police each post... I don't know its always not set right with me... can someone please explain how Earthlink or AOL can even HAVE child porn newsgroups and stuff like that on there!? Its totally insane.
Here is an excerpt from an article about the situation...
---
Tampa Tribune - Teens charged with selling porn
Police say the pair copied the material from the Internet and sold it to classmates.
Published on May 21, 1996
TAMPA -- The Information Superhighway turned into a Pandora's box Monday for at least two gifted Plant High School students.
Two students, both 15 and from Tampa, were arrested and charged with felony counts of distributing and selling pornography off the Internet to their underage classmates.
Both were released on their own recognizance Monday afternoon. It was uncertain if the two will be tried as adults.
I wish I had more of the article but Tampa Tribune's site won't give it up for free
Some may, but in truth it becomes people's "collection" or "hobby" -- e-penis if you will :)
So if you are someone who loves books and has a huge library in your home, wouldn't the idea of having thousands more on your computer seem appealing? As the anon poster pointed out, just having access to that much data is staggering.
what are you talking about, where can I get some of what your smoking, and can we have a link to this "article" please? :)