1. The only thing Google is trying is to make money out of other people's work.
So do book stores.
2. The sale of a book brings author money. The click on a link without sale only brings Google money.
But what you first complained was: we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you
Sales commissions is different from link clicks.
4. 2-3 pages are sometimes enough to get an idea. A researcher looks at an index of a book and then reads the pages based on keyword. Google provides this service to the researcher.
You can't read the pages based on the keyword without permission of the copyright holder. You only get like about a sentence's worth.
[i]Since when was scanning books from libraries and making them available to public for a profit was considered "fair use"?[/i]
It's not. You are mischaracterizing Google's system. The problem with your claim is that Google's system doesn't make the book available to users to download, it is only a search method that points to the relevant books and provides short excerpts like their search engine does. Google won't provide the book or even whole page without the copyright owner's permission. My impression is that Google was just trying to make an improved card catalog.
[i]we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you[/i]
The sale of the book meant that the author got their share of the money.
[i]we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude[/i]
The researcher could just go to the local research library, no books purchased. Another problem is that the research would be horribly flawed given that the given descriptions are so short and the allowed excerpts only cover certain pixed pages.
I think any game that uses SDL, because the SDL framework needs to be installed to/Library/Frameworks.
I do agree that too many applications seem to need a special password, I wish there was an easy way to expose in a decipherable manner exactly what it does that claims to need it.
Peer review seems like a pretty good idea. One of the ideas of "XP" - eXtreme Programming, is that you get two people that you get pairs of programmer, they cooperate on the same code at the same program. I think that's highly unrealistic though, though proponents of XP claim that it saves in problems in the long run by reducing bugs that crop up later.
I think your problem is solved by simply using better keyword combinations. "Apple Macintosh" is going to get what you want, if another person wanted a person, they should throw in a first name or where they made their name known, say, "Macintosh baseball".
I've seen a complaint in a Slashdot story long ago on a similar topic, complaining that searching for "Paris Hilton" gets you that American whore when they wanted the hotel in France. That's easily solved by just using "Hilton Hotel France".
Last time I checked they had these magical things called wiretaps before 2001.
Right. The problem really is that there USED to be judicial oversight. No more. Supporters of PATRIOT claim it's never been abused, thus it's not a problem.
Just the turbulence of heated air generates noise. Any molecule aboce zero degrees Kelvin generates noise. I think air at room temperature generates around 6dB of noise.
I like the fact that some digital electronics still use "knobs" of some sort. For me, they are lot quicker to dial in than it is to hold a button down until it gets there. Converting motion into control pulses is a good idea, better than button clicks for anything that has a large range of values, such as a mouse on a screen to draw pictures, vs. using keyboard arrows to navigate.
If ATI really didn't put dual link DVI in the SLI card, then I'm disappointed.
I'm a bit disappointed with the DVI standard though, I have a 9600-something attached to a 21" CRT, and that combination can run 2048x1536@80Hz over the analog connections. I do get a bit flicker weary though, so I don't stay in that mode for long.
iPod mini uses anodized aluminum, I think a lot of competing players do too, though others don't colorize the anodization. It's a lot more scratch and nick resistant than plastic, though certainly not perfect. What's nice about anodization is that the coloring and protection should penetrate, so you can't just scratch the color off.
I don't have a mini so I can't say how good the anodization was.
You think people should have to spend even MORE money to protect the product?
Shiny plastic is going to scratch, and I think it is going to be the case for every handheld device. Screen protectors aren't that expensive. Unfortunately for me, despite having a flip cover, the screen in my palm device got a scratch just after I bought my screen protector sheet pack, before I could put it on.
As it is, while the overall OS X way of doing things may be the best, I think it needs a lot of improvement, and KDE seems to be a regression.
The #1 improvement that I want is the choice to sort folders first even if sorting by name or extension. I hate having to scroll down so much with the folders scattered among the files, because most of the time, I need something that's in a sub folder. I think this might be a UNIX/old MacOS carry-over, but I think the way Windows does this is the best way.
I think there is a way to do it, but I would like to have a "create new file here" in Finder, much like Windows explorer. I navigate to a folder and realize I need to add a new file, I'd like to right click and say "new text document" then edit it by double clicking it. The way it is now, I'd have to open a text editor and navigate to the same folder again to tell it to save a file there.
I would like a maximize button. I don't know what the green (+) button is supposed to do, but it behaves very differently between different programs. iTunes switches to full screen and mini player, the full screen ignores the dock, so I need to resize it so I can use UI elements covered by the dock. Finder either stretches only vertically, shrinks to fit the number of file item or some other irritating variation when all I want is a maximize.
The Epia is often used to build car-puters, whereas I haven't yet heard of something using a Mini for that purpose.
I haven't been tracking this use, but I've seen several forum posts and several web sites around puting a Mac mini into cars. Heck, just put "Mac mini auto" into Google and you'll find a few of them. There are at least two companies offering add-ons, one sells a dock to put the computer in and pull it, and another is a DC power supply rather than using an AC inverter then the power brick.
RAID0 is FASTER than a single drive configuration, because you're doubling the number of spindles and heads working together.
On top of that, it's apparently faster for some things, but not others. There was a big showdown between Storage Review and some other site over this. I think what was happening is that the raw bandwidth improves but the latency doesn't.
I don't think that's the right way to think of it. Call it stepping stones. There's no point in abandoning short term projects for a long term one. There's no point in completely abandoning known working tech for something that's totally theoretical.
It's probably a lot cheaper to "revamp the Apollo capsule" than it is to insist on such a great leap in tech, that tech being more of a curiosity at the moment than anything else. Taking things too radically different is what got us the Space Shuttle, when Soyuz+Mir and Soyuz+ISS has been doing far better, being older tech yet.
So far, despite the significant amount of research, I don't think the nanotubes have been made in kilometers, never mind 33000 kilometers or whatever it is necessary, and there are a lot of logistical issues.
How well does Teragrid change things? The data connection to each site is much larger, but each site has a large number of computers too, which would seem to offset the link speed.
One of the stated reasons for the x86 changeover is because of power consumption, and it's not because of the P4 architecture but because of PM and what will replace P4. While it is good compute-wise, the G4 is hobbled by a slow bus (167MHz vs 400MHz and higher) and smaller cache 512k vs. (1MB and 2MB), and really can't compete well.
I'm not really buying the battery life claims as people report longer battery life with Centrino laptops. Apple laptops aren't nearly the performance leaders they should be either, because it is held back.
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You can store 5 minutes DV-quality porn on a 1GB stick.
If you are a man of questionable tolerance and determination, I suggest you use some kind of compression.
As if DV doesn't already involve some kind of compression?
I know I could be wrong, but I don't think iTunes is still included, I thought that was part of the iPod deal, which HP terminated.
HP doesn't seem to have the vendor lock-in with Intel either, they sell Opteron and Athlon based computers.
1. The only thing Google is trying is to make money out of other people's work.
So do book stores.
2. The sale of a book brings author money. The click on a link without sale only brings Google money.
But what you first complained was:
we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you
Sales commissions is different from link clicks.
4. 2-3 pages are sometimes enough to get an idea. A researcher looks at an index of a book and then reads the pages based on keyword. Google provides this service to the researcher.
You can't read the pages based on the keyword without permission of the copyright holder. You only get like about a sentence's worth.
[i]Since when was scanning books from libraries and making them available to public for a profit was considered "fair use"?[/i]
It's not. You are mischaracterizing Google's system. The problem with your claim is that Google's system doesn't make the book available to users to download, it is only a search method that points to the relevant books and provides short excerpts like their search engine does. Google won't provide the book or even whole page without the copyright owner's permission. My impression is that Google was just trying to make an improved card catalog.
[i]we will take sale comissions from amazon, buy.com, bn.com, etc. without sharing anything with you[/i]
The sale of the book meant that the author got their share of the money.
[i]we will show excerpts of your book, so if a researcher is researching on a topic he can find what you have written about a topic without ever having to buy your book, too bad, heh heh, write a fiction book dude[/i]
The researcher could just go to the local research library, no books purchased. Another problem is that the research would be horribly flawed given that the given descriptions are so short and the allowed excerpts only cover certain pixed pages.
I think any game that uses SDL, because the SDL framework needs to be installed to /Library/Frameworks.
I do agree that too many applications seem to need a special password, I wish there was an easy way to expose in a decipherable manner exactly what it does that claims to need it.
Peer review seems like a pretty good idea. One of the ideas of "XP" - eXtreme Programming, is that you get two people that you get pairs of programmer, they cooperate on the same code at the same program. I think that's highly unrealistic though, though proponents of XP claim that it saves in problems in the long run by reducing bugs that crop up later.
I think your problem is solved by simply using better keyword combinations. "Apple Macintosh" is going to get what you want, if another person wanted a person, they should throw in a first name or where they made their name known, say, "Macintosh baseball".
I've seen a complaint in a Slashdot story long ago on a similar topic, complaining that searching for "Paris Hilton" gets you that American whore when they wanted the hotel in France. That's easily solved by just using "Hilton Hotel France".
Last time I checked they had these magical things called wiretaps before 2001.
Right. The problem really is that there USED to be judicial oversight. No more. Supporters of PATRIOT claim it's never been abused, thus it's not a problem.
Just the turbulence of heated air generates noise. Any molecule aboce zero degrees Kelvin generates noise. I think air at room temperature generates around 6dB of noise.
I like the fact that some digital electronics still use "knobs" of some sort. For me, they are lot quicker to dial in than it is to hold a button down until it gets there. Converting motion into control pulses is a good idea, better than button clicks for anything that has a large range of values, such as a mouse on a screen to draw pictures, vs. using keyboard arrows to navigate.
"The wheel is still circular."
All we need to say is that the new circle is actually a 1-sphere.
Ignoring the fact that the old circle is a 1-sphere too.
If ATI really didn't put dual link DVI in the SLI card, then I'm disappointed.
I'm a bit disappointed with the DVI standard though, I have a 9600-something attached to a 21" CRT, and that combination can run 2048x1536@80Hz over the analog connections. I do get a bit flicker weary though, so I don't stay in that mode for long.
iPod mini uses anodized aluminum, I think a lot of competing players do too, though others don't colorize the anodization. It's a lot more scratch and nick resistant than plastic, though certainly not perfect. What's nice about anodization is that the coloring and protection should penetrate, so you can't just scratch the color off.
I don't have a mini so I can't say how good the anodization was.
You think people should have to spend even MORE money to protect the product?
Shiny plastic is going to scratch, and I think it is going to be the case for every handheld device. Screen protectors aren't that expensive. Unfortunately for me, despite having a flip cover, the screen in my palm device got a scratch just after I bought my screen protector sheet pack, before I could put it on.
All these are wrong folks.
The error isn't about which folks, or what kind of folks they are. The error is the grammar.
As it is, while the overall OS X way of doing things may be the best, I think it needs a lot of improvement, and KDE seems to be a regression.
The #1 improvement that I want is the choice to sort folders first even if sorting by name or extension. I hate having to scroll down so much with the folders scattered among the files, because most of the time, I need something that's in a sub folder. I think this might be a UNIX/old MacOS carry-over, but I think the way Windows does this is the best way.
I think there is a way to do it, but I would like to have a "create new file here" in Finder, much like Windows explorer. I navigate to a folder and realize I need to add a new file, I'd like to right click and say "new text document" then edit it by double clicking it. The way it is now, I'd have to open a text editor and navigate to the same folder again to tell it to save a file there.
I would like a maximize button. I don't know what the green (+) button is supposed to do, but it behaves very differently between different programs. iTunes switches to full screen and mini player, the full screen ignores the dock, so I need to resize it so I can use UI elements covered by the dock. Finder either stretches only vertically, shrinks to fit the number of file item or some other irritating variation when all I want is a maximize.
surprisingly many stories hashes to the same value..
Is it zero?
The Epia is often used to build car-puters, whereas I haven't yet heard of something using a Mini for that purpose.
I haven't been tracking this use, but I've seen several forum posts and several web sites around puting a Mac mini into cars. Heck, just put "Mac mini auto" into Google and you'll find a few of them. There are at least two companies offering add-ons, one sells a dock to put the computer in and pull it, and another is a DC power supply rather than using an AC inverter then the power brick.
RAID0 is FASTER than a single drive configuration, because you're doubling the number of spindles and heads working together.
On top of that, it's apparently faster for some things, but not others. There was a big showdown between Storage Review and some other site over this. I think what was happening is that the raw bandwidth improves but the latency doesn't.
I think the backlight technology is probably different, so it is more efficient. My guess is maybe they switched to white LEDs.
I think radio is crap, and I live in an area where all channel slots are taken, every one of them is crap.
Why people want to listen to 10 minutes of loud, obnoxious ads for 20 minutes of content is beyond me.
I don't think that's the right way to think of it. Call it stepping stones. There's no point in abandoning short term projects for a long term one. There's no point in completely abandoning known working tech for something that's totally theoretical.
It's probably a lot cheaper to "revamp the Apollo capsule" than it is to insist on such a great leap in tech, that tech being more of a curiosity at the moment than anything else. Taking things too radically different is what got us the Space Shuttle, when Soyuz+Mir and Soyuz+ISS has been doing far better, being older tech yet.
So far, despite the significant amount of research, I don't think the nanotubes have been made in kilometers, never mind 33000 kilometers or whatever it is necessary, and there are a lot of logistical issues.
How well does Teragrid change things? The data connection to each site is much larger, but each site has a large number of computers too, which would seem to offset the link speed.
More specifically, the critical part appears to be that they aren't a signatory of the Berne convention:
_ the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for
One of the stated reasons for the x86 changeover is because of power consumption, and it's not because of the P4 architecture but because of PM and what will replace P4. While it is good compute-wise, the G4 is hobbled by a slow bus (167MHz vs 400MHz and higher) and smaller cache 512k vs. (1MB and 2MB), and really can't compete well.
I'm not really buying the battery life claims as people report longer battery life with Centrino laptops. Apple laptops aren't nearly the performance leaders they should be either, because it is held back.