It's not exactly censorship. Google created algorithms to rank pages based on several factors. They found that the algorithms were flawed and could be exploited by people like SearchKing. They fixed the algorithms. The fact that SearchKing or other link farms don't rank so highly anymore points more to effective changes to the algorithm than to censorship.
Until Google comes right out and says "We look for SearchKing specifically and downrank them!" It's not censorship nor is it wrong IMNSHO
Where did Google admit to downraking searchking specifically? They very well could have downranked ANY linkfarm as a part of their pagerank formula change which is what is implied in the law meme article.
You are exactly right, there is far too much beta quality software put out claiming to be release quality. This is another problem entirly and deserves as much attention if not more as it increases the number of users that think beta software is good enough.
Users still shouldn't expect something labled as beta to be a 1.0. Betas are supposed to be for testing and debugging. Too many people use Beta software in a production environment with the mindset of the parent poster. It says beta but it should really be a release. If it says beta expect bugs.
The mozilla project helped a growing trend of using beta software in production environments, but the blame still lies with the person installing the software and expecting it to be release quality.
If it says beta it isn't 1.0 period. If it says Beta and you expect it to work flawlessly you are going to be dissapointed. The truth of the matter is there is much too much software hitting release that isn't labeled as beta quality but is only beta quality.
I was under the impression these were state laws not federal, but I could be wrong. I also implied that these switches were added either by the installer, or by the owner and not the manufacturer.
The rules only apply to the front display, so if you have a passenger in the front seat they don't get to watch because it could be a distraction to the driver. Rear displays are still ok. Of the units I've seen installed the cut off stops the display in the front from either turning on, or ejecting from inside the unit (display comes out and folds up) specifically so that multiple display setups still work.
Your second point is valid, the onboard navigation unit can be just as distracting, but I don't believe they fall under the regulation which is for tv/dvd type media. Of course this is going to vary by locale, and I can only speak specifically for Nevada. Though I understand California, Washington, and Oregon are also regulated. I also have a friend that runs a car audio shop and he has to explain to people constantly about what they can/can't do, and then how to get around it.
Things like that do exist. In dash DVD players have to be hooked up so that they are disabled when the car is started in some states. However, every installation I've seen for one of those things has had a switch hidden somewhere instead of being hooked up to the ignition. Or, a switch in the middle to hide the fact that the safety feature is disabled. I can't speak for all states, but it's that way in several.
Pepper spray is probably more usefull against civillians than against terrorists/soldiers. I also wouldn't be surprised if that was the intent. Its probably for use against any non combatant that irritates you and you would get in trouble for killing.
Consider urban warfare. You could be facing attack from soldiers and civillians. While your standard weapons are perfect for mowing down enemy soldiers, there are political implications to mowing down civilians. Unless of course you are Isreal killing Palastenian civillians, then it's just collateral damage. Ok, political bias aside, that's probably the reason for pepper spray.
Geez, at a million bucks a peice that is one overpriced truck.
Actually I would have been more surprised if they had been present on this list. Since Carly took over dealing with HP has been a pain in the ass. Everyone I know there has left or been layed off. Now that the merger is through it is worse. The HP Way left with Agilent and was passed on from Agilent to Philips. When Compaq and HP merged it was just the nail in the coffin.
I hear Agilent is hiring you could always try over there;)
Hell, I would have bought a 12" PowerBook 6 months ago, and still might. I got my wife a laptop for use with school. It is faster than the pc she was using, and once it showed up she decided that she liked the OS better. The only real requirment she put on me when purchasing her laptop was that it had to be small. When I showed her the small sony's they were out because of the lack of a cdrom drive. This left the iBooks. She loves her iBook, and the only thing I don't like about it is the speed.
I'd pay the differance in price just for the faster processor, and the advantages of the G4 over the G3. The SuperDrive option is also really cool, and I'm sure if we get her the powerbook we'll get that too.
This may not sell a huge amount, but it will certainly be a nice upgrade for those that like the iBooks small size, but want a little more punch.
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The GeForce 4 4200 Go and the Radeon 9000 Mobile are the closes to gaming you can get for laptops however in the PowerBook's case I think it's more important for the OpenGL acceleration being done in the interface. Having a lot of windows open while doing DV playing/editing etc. At least that's why I would want a powerbook with the Radeon 9000.
Funny that this is the answer. I was certainly wondering if this was posted somewhere in the.mac members section. Finding that particular url would take way to damn long to do manually.
Of course I couldn't see paying for.mac so had no way of verifying this myself.
Being that it is just a screen shot I don't know that it is enough to say this has to be web based. The elements look differant to me than the other.mac areas for email etc. The address area also looks quite a bit like a listview control and not necessarily html. Of course they could be giving the whole site a ui revamp to match what we see in this address book website.
On the other hand it is hard to deny that the icon in the upper right hand corner looks just like the logout icon in this screenshot for the webmail. image
Also, why would Apple put an image of a new Mac OS X feature on the mac.com site rather than the apple.com site. They resolve to the same address but are most certainly contained within differant directory structures. Or maybe it is both a new.mac web feature and a new new addressbook.app for.mac subscribers.
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Fire fighting drones would be especially beneficial as most of the planes used to do this are old. During the last fire season here in northern Nevada a plane split up during a run (the wings literally ripped right off) and the crew was killed. Another plane went down in Colorado, and another in Idaho. Losing a drone to a fire fighting accidant would be much better than losing lives. While human error is a consderation most of the accidants appeared to be due to poor maintenance on the planes or simply due to the age of the planes.
Of course since the Forestry service can't afford newer planes now, I don't see how they will be able to afford drones in the future. Regardless of how much cheaper they may or may not be.
The area-51m is more expensive configured similarly to the powerbook, and it still has less features.
The reason I think it is very important to point out that the area-51m doesn't use a mobile p4 is that the desktop p4's don't work as well when not connected to power where a mobile P4 is meant to work efficiently without AC. The PowerBook G4 doesn't have this problem.
Also, I would hardly consider ANY box with a Radeon 9000 a gaming machine. The Mobile Radeon 9000 is based on the same tech as the Radeon 8500 if I remember correctly, and many people had nothing but trouble gaming with the Radeon 8500 series.
Interesting question considering the large number of leaked internal memos etc that are showing up on the net these days.
The only thing I can think is that the document contained no trade secrets which I believed to be what constituted industrial espionage. Of course i'm not a lawyer so I should probably shut up now.
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Fair enough. I agree that google can cencor anything they want to, of course I'm glad they choose not to (except where required by law).
It's not exactly censorship. Google created algorithms to rank pages based on several factors. They found that the algorithms were flawed and could be exploited by people like SearchKing. They fixed the algorithms. The fact that SearchKing or other link farms don't rank so highly anymore points more to effective changes to the algorithm than to censorship.
Until Google comes right out and says "We look for SearchKing specifically and downrank them!" It's not censorship nor is it wrong IMNSHO
Where did Google admit to downraking searchking specifically? They very well could have downranked ANY linkfarm as a part of their pagerank formula change which is what is implied in the law meme article.
You are exactly right, there is far too much beta quality software put out claiming to be release quality. This is another problem entirly and deserves as much attention if not more as it increases the number of users that think beta software is good enough.
Users still shouldn't expect something labled as beta to be a 1.0. Betas are supposed to be for testing and debugging. Too many people use Beta software in a production environment with the mindset of the parent poster. It says beta but it should really be a release. If it says beta expect bugs.
The mozilla project helped a growing trend of using beta software in production environments, but the blame still lies with the person installing the software and expecting it to be release quality.
If it says beta it isn't 1.0 period. If it says Beta and you expect it to work flawlessly you are going to be dissapointed. The truth of the matter is there is much too much software hitting release that isn't labeled as beta quality but is only beta quality.
I was under the impression these were state laws not federal, but I could be wrong. I also implied that these switches were added either by the installer, or by the owner and not the manufacturer.
The rules only apply to the front display, so if you have a passenger in the front seat they don't get to watch because it could be a distraction to the driver. Rear displays are still ok. Of the units I've seen installed the cut off stops the display in the front from either turning on, or ejecting from inside the unit (display comes out and folds up) specifically so that multiple display setups still work.
Your second point is valid, the onboard navigation unit can be just as distracting, but I don't believe they fall under the regulation which is for tv/dvd type media. Of course this is going to vary by locale, and I can only speak specifically for Nevada. Though I understand California, Washington, and Oregon are also regulated. I also have a friend that runs a car audio shop and he has to explain to people constantly about what they can/can't do, and then how to get around it.
Things like that do exist. In dash DVD players have to be hooked up so that they are disabled when the car is started in some states. However, every installation I've seen for one of those things has had a switch hidden somewhere instead of being hooked up to the ignition. Or, a switch in the middle to hide the fact that the safety feature is disabled. I can't speak for all states, but it's that way in several.
How? It's not like Saddam is reading his email to begin with.
Pepper spray is probably more usefull against civillians than against terrorists/soldiers. I also wouldn't be surprised if that was the intent. Its probably for use against any non combatant that irritates you and you would get in trouble for killing.
Consider urban warfare. You could be facing attack from soldiers and civillians. While your standard weapons are perfect for mowing down enemy soldiers, there are political implications to mowing down civilians. Unless of course you are Isreal killing Palastenian civillians, then it's just collateral damage. Ok, political bias aside, that's probably the reason for pepper spray.
Geez, at a million bucks a peice that is one overpriced truck.
How many of the applicants thought they were qualified because the read Sams teach yourself VB in 24 hours.
Actually I would have been more surprised if they had been present on this list. Since Carly took over dealing with HP has been a pain in the ass. Everyone I know there has left or been layed off. Now that the merger is through it is worse. The HP Way left with Agilent and was passed on from Agilent to Philips. When Compaq and HP merged it was just the nail in the coffin.
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I hear Agilent is hiring you could always try over there
Hell, I would have bought a 12" PowerBook 6 months ago, and still might. I got my wife a laptop for use with school. It is faster than the pc she was using, and once it showed up she decided that she liked the OS better. The only real requirment she put on me when purchasing her laptop was that it had to be small. When I showed her the small sony's they were out because of the lack of a cdrom drive. This left the iBooks. She loves her iBook, and the only thing I don't like about it is the speed.
;)
I'd pay the differance in price just for the faster processor, and the advantages of the G4 over the G3. The SuperDrive option is also really cool, and I'm sure if we get her the powerbook we'll get that too.
This may not sell a huge amount, but it will certainly be a nice upgrade for those that like the iBooks small size, but want a little more punch.
Or maybe it's just me
Or not at all:
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Dell and IBM both sell Linux boxes with all the support your want (or are willing to pay for).
Though apparently most people forget this.
good grief, how long did that take to put together I wonder.
The GeForce 4 4200 Go and the Radeon 9000 Mobile are the closes to gaming you can get for laptops however in the PowerBook's case I think it's more important for the OpenGL acceleration being done in the interface. Having a lot of windows open while doing DV playing/editing etc. At least that's why I would want a powerbook with the Radeon 9000.
Funny that this is the answer. I was certainly wondering if this was posted somewhere in the .mac members section. Finding that particular url would take way to damn long to do manually.
.mac so had no way of verifying this myself.
Of course I couldn't see paying for
This comment from a .mac user points out exactly what it is. Figures that this isn't really news.
Being that it is just a screen shot I don't know that it is enough to say this has to be web based. The elements look differant to me than the other .mac areas for email etc. The address area also looks quite a bit like a listview control and not necessarily html. Of course they could be giving the whole site a ui revamp to match what we see in this address book website.
.mac web feature and a new new addressbook.app for .mac subscribers.
On the other hand it is hard to deny that the icon in the upper right hand corner looks just like the logout icon in this screenshot for the webmail. image
Also, why would Apple put an image of a new Mac OS X feature on the mac.com site rather than the apple.com site. They resolve to the same address but are most certainly contained within differant directory structures. Or maybe it is both a new
Fire fighting drones would be especially beneficial as most of the planes used to do this are old. During the last fire season here in northern Nevada a plane split up during a run (the wings literally ripped right off) and the crew was killed. Another plane went down in Colorado, and another in Idaho. Losing a drone to a fire fighting accidant would be much better than losing lives. While human error is a consderation most of the accidants appeared to be due to poor maintenance on the planes or simply due to the age of the planes.
Of course since the Forestry service can't afford newer planes now, I don't see how they will be able to afford drones in the future. Regardless of how much cheaper they may or may not be.
The area-51m is more expensive configured similarly to the powerbook, and it still has less features.
The reason I think it is very important to point out that the area-51m doesn't use a mobile p4 is that the desktop p4's don't work as well when not connected to power where a mobile P4 is meant to work efficiently without AC. The PowerBook G4 doesn't have this problem.
Also, I would hardly consider ANY box with a Radeon 9000 a gaming machine. The Mobile Radeon 9000 is based on the same tech as the Radeon 8500 if I remember correctly, and many people had nothing but trouble gaming with the Radeon 8500 series.
The article doesn't show if the sites benifited from the documents or even can benefit from the documents.
Interesting question considering the large number of leaked internal memos etc that are showing up on the net these days.
The only thing I can think is that the document contained no trade secrets which I believed to be what constituted industrial espionage. Of course i'm not a lawyer so I should probably shut up now.