Tomorrow they're a utility, like gas and electricity.
They already are. Do you recall a day without using Google on the net recently?
Next week they're a small government.
They may not be a small government, but their page ranking system can certainly decide which companies gets better exposure on the web. That's an awful lot of economic power in a sense.
Next month they take over the world. Maybe also the galaxy.
how prominent Google and Yahoo have become as almost parts of the operating system
Ok, so Google is a really good search engine (although you should also look at Vivissimo, it's quite excellent too) and I use it all the time, and everybody I know uses it all the time, and my dog would become depressed if he didn't use it regularly too. But Yahoo?
I don't remember the last time I used Yahoo. Or rather, I know I have an Egroups^H^H^H^H^H^HYahoo Groups account that I've given up on using since Yahoo decided to dump a million metric ton worth of advertisement on me in each page, and I think I went to yahoo.com to check it out with a glazed eye when I read somewhere that it stopped using the Google search engine not so long ago, like it mattered to anybody since I fail to remember anybody I ever met who uses Yahoo for anything whatsoever.
Next week, once the four-day upload of the software is complete, Opportunity will head for Endurance crater
Isn' that really sad? those rovers that are millions of miles away get their data faster than I can download anything from eMule these days, right here on good old earth.
If the Windows help thing can be disabled or uninstalled, maybe that exploit won't have anything to exploit.
I don't run Windows, so I don't know much about the help system in it, but what I do know is that the help it gave me was about as useful as fine bone china in a tea party for drunken Parkinson disease sufferers, so uninstalling/disabling it won't be a great loss.
Some of Canada's largest pension funds as well as Toronto conglomerate Onex Corp. and several U.S. vulture funds have been mentioned as possible replacement investors in the airline.
The amusing thing was that the CPU in the Trailblazer was much faster than the ST itself
Hardly amusing. The technique of offloading CPU load onto specialized, more powerful (in their own way) specialized coprocessors is older than the ST. Hell, even the blitter could be said to be faster than the 68K in the ST.
Have you ever wondered what part of your PC does floating-point calculations the fastest? and which one does DSP the fastest? (hint: it's not the main CPU).
Soon to come: an internet morse code interface for the internet C64 BBS systems, for those of us who really think those 40 columns by 25 lines and 16 colors are a disgraceful novelty item, not worthy of true purists!!
Remember at school/university when we use the same principle to keep our beer cold.
Well of course it's obvious, and everybody knows the trick, but this is a perfect example of how some people can be taken by the most outrageous nigerian scams. This time it was the Rolex award judges. Perhaps they expect 20M to be wired from some bank account in Nigeria or something...
hat way, you get an immediate feel for news patterns (what the media in any particular region is gravitating to)
I clicked on the link and Mozilla popped a window saying "The document contains no data" : this indeed matches exactly what I've been seeing in the TV news for years.
She said she e-mailed him at what she assumed was his important U.S. company, Tutranscribe, although the firm didn't have its own Web site, only an AOL account.
I can recognize various German accents even when the people are speaking English
I can't recognize southern France accents through english. It's very well known that the "singing" rolling accents found in the south of France just isn't compatible with pronouncing english properly, so either someone from there will speak english so badly you won't get a word of it, or he'll speak english properly and his native french accent will be filtered out by his very act of speaking english.
It's just harder to learn english if you have a southern french accent to begin with. But once english is mastered enough, you won't hear any difference between a Paris speaker and a Marseille speaker. English acts as an equalizer here.
Yes but why is British english considered the true english? because England is the most important country in the world, or because english originates from there?
If you think it's the former, then since Britain isn't the great empire she once was, and is only just a regular country these days, then you could consider US english as being the "root" english language.
If you think it's the latter, then one could also consider than english, which is a normand anglo-saxon tongue, originated either from Saxony (in Germany) or Normandy (in France) and therefore is itself an accented version of these languages.
What I'm saying is, every language is the derivate of something else, it all depends on your point of view. And what's more, within the UK and the US, there are great variations of accents, so I'm not sure it means anything to say "british english is true english".
Perhaps if someone could come up with a "reasonable average" of the lingo, then that would be the true english...
Well, and there's also the fact that Orrin Hatch thinks he's a really great singer, and therefore likes to say of himself that he has a personal stake in seeing file sharing criminalized. Of course, anybody who's heard his music knows his musical "hits" aren't very likely to get swapped like crazy, and so the truth is that he has rigorously no risk of losing any money from P2P whatsoever...
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Today Google is an operating system layer.
Why not, it's a matter of semantic really
Tomorrow they're a utility, like gas and electricity.
They already are. Do you recall a day without using Google on the net recently?
Next week they're a small government.
They may not be a small government, but their page ranking system can certainly decide which companies gets better exposure on the web. That's an awful lot of economic power in a sense.
Next month they take over the world.
Maybe also the galaxy.
how prominent Google and Yahoo have become as almost parts of the operating system
Ok, so Google is a really good search engine (although you should also look at Vivissimo, it's quite excellent too) and I use it all the time, and everybody I know uses it all the time, and my dog would become depressed if he didn't use it regularly too. But Yahoo?
I don't remember the last time I used Yahoo. Or rather, I know I have an Egroups^H^H^H^H^H^HYahoo Groups account that I've given up on using since Yahoo decided to dump a million metric ton worth of advertisement on me in each page, and I think I went to yahoo.com to check it out with a glazed eye when I read somewhere that it stopped using the Google search engine not so long ago, like it mattered to anybody since I fail to remember anybody I ever met who uses Yahoo for anything whatsoever.
Next week, once the four-day upload of the software is complete, Opportunity will head for Endurance crater
Isn' that really sad? those rovers that are millions of miles away get their data faster than I can download anything from eMule these days, right here on good old earth.
FCC to Reorganize 800mhz Band? ...
reorganization of the 800mhz bandplan.
Uuh, what's mhz? milli-aysh-zee?
Or maybe the poster means MHz?
I'm a man, therefore I use MAN pages when I need help.
Tell me, do you also happen to use gimp?
If the Windows help thing can be disabled or uninstalled, maybe that exploit won't have anything to exploit.
I don't run Windows, so I don't know much about the help system in it, but what I do know is that the help it gave me was about as useful as fine bone china in a tea party for drunken Parkinson disease sufferers, so uninstalling/disabling it won't be a great loss.
Some of Canada's largest pension funds as well as Toronto conglomerate Onex Corp. and several U.S. vulture funds have been mentioned as possible replacement investors in the airline.
Finally a newspaper that calls a cat a cat!
How can this be very useful? The C64 has about 32K of useable RAM
Actually, it's a very secure system to go on the internet with, for one thing: even the smallest Windows virus won't fit in 32K.
Yeah. I started out with a 110 bps Baudot modem. I also used to walk ten miles through six feet of snow to get to school when I was a kid
I didn't know 110bps modems could double has snow boots...
The amusing thing was that the CPU in the Trailblazer was much faster than the ST itself
Hardly amusing. The technique of offloading CPU load onto specialized, more powerful (in their own way) specialized coprocessors is older than the ST. Hell, even the blitter could be said to be faster than the 68K in the ST.
Have you ever wondered what part of your PC does floating-point calculations the fastest? and which one does DSP the fastest? (hint: it's not the main CPU).
Soon to come: an internet morse code interface for the internet C64 BBS systems, for those of us who really think those 40 columns by 25 lines and 16 colors are a disgraceful novelty item, not worthy of true purists!!
Remember at school/university when we use the same principle to keep our beer cold.
Well of course it's obvious, and everybody knows the trick, but this is a perfect example of how some people can be taken by the most outrageous nigerian scams. This time it was the Rolex award judges. Perhaps they expect 20M to be wired from some bank account in Nigeria or something...
Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria won a Rolex award for his pot-in-pot invention
So I expect soon he'll be creating MohamedCo and start selling rotisserie ovens on Nigerian TV?
starting with the commonly-observed phenomenon that things look bigger under water
I knew there was a perfectly rational explanation for why love in the swimming pool always seems more passionate...
Apparently we all need less advertising, and just enough so that we find it acceptable.
says jdkane on ad-riddled Slashdot...
This championship looks very amateurish and unprofessional compared to this!
hat way, you get an immediate feel for news patterns (what the media in any particular region is gravitating to)
I clicked on the link and Mozilla popped a window saying "The document contains no data" : this indeed matches exactly what I've been seeing in the TV news for years.
Well done!
Oh come on, Debian isn't that big...
Competing against Google seems futile at this point in my life.
I bet all Google employees are letting out a sigh of relief at this very moment...
She said she e-mailed him at what she assumed was his important U.S. company, Tutranscribe, although the firm didn't have its own Web site, only an AOL account.
"You've got (black)mail!"
They say that the first accent was a grave mistake...
Not at all, it was an acute mistake...
I can recognize various German accents even when the people are speaking English
I can't recognize southern France accents through english. It's very well known that the "singing" rolling accents found in the south of France just isn't compatible with pronouncing english properly, so either someone from there will speak english so badly you won't get a word of it, or he'll speak english properly and his native french accent will be filtered out by his very act of speaking english.
It's just harder to learn english if you have a southern french accent to begin with. But once english is mastered enough, you won't hear any difference between a Paris speaker and a Marseille speaker. English acts as an equalizer here.
Yes but why is British english considered the true english? because England is the most important country in the world, or because english originates from there?
If you think it's the former, then since Britain isn't the great empire she once was, and is only just a regular country these days, then you could consider US english as being the "root" english language.
If you think it's the latter, then one could also consider than english, which is a normand anglo-saxon tongue, originated either from Saxony (in Germany) or Normandy (in France) and therefore is itself an accented version of these languages.
What I'm saying is, every language is the derivate of something else, it all depends on your point of view. And what's more, within the UK and the US, there are great variations of accents, so I'm not sure it means anything to say "british english is true english".
Perhaps if someone could come up with a "reasonable average" of the lingo, then that would be the true english...
Well, and there's also the fact that Orrin Hatch thinks he's a
really great singer, and therefore likes to say of himself that he has a personal stake in seeing file sharing criminalized. Of course, anybody who's heard his music knows his musical "hits" aren't very likely to get swapped like crazy, and so the truth is that he has rigorously no risk of losing any money from P2P whatsoever...
Under the bill, even sharing a single file (if a judge decides the value is over $10,000) could land a user in jail
Given the strength of the dollar these days, that's like the price of a single Anne Murray CD...