The fact that an octopus doesn't get tangled up is probably related to the fact that the arms are (1) smooth, (2) pliable, (3) slippery, (4) oiled/lubricated, (5) immersed in a fluid. The way the arm tapers from large to small probably has some value here, too.
How about this, in a Darwinian frame of reference:
Those octopi whose arms
did tangle were eventually removed from the gene pool.
this comment may not be deemed appropriate for some schools, where the octopus is viewed as a diety
She had opened the top of her tank, navigated across the table to the goldfish tank, helped herself to every last goldfish in the goldfish tank and then crawled back home, closing the top of her tank! All I could do was stare in dumbfounded amazement.
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IT Jobs Outsourced to Octopii
She also exhibited curiosity with new objects placed into her tank, exploring them extensively,
Typical geek behaviour. Good thing I'm already used to eating seaweed...
The madde spellere strikes again: "This website does NOT anything to do with Google Inc. Every logos, trade marks and images are property of Google Inc "
That's probably exactly what they mean. I've got no problems with it though. And I think they should have credit for not only saying it, byt also meaning it.
I'm really glad that such companies do exist. I'm sick and tired with all comapnies that over-promise and under-deliver.
As Microsoft is often accused of, i.e. our beta testing program is release it to the public and see what goes wrong then patch it.
While Microsoft is omnipresent and therefore their bugs get a lot of press, there are any number of vendors of products who get it wrong on the first try but still send it out.
We had a vendor at my last place of work who modified payroll code and installed it, untested, just before production runs. Unforgivable in my eyes, and it did blow up hideously at least once (which is why you don't do such things.)
I felt I bought a Beta Pontiac Fiero, years ago, because the first year were highly undesirable due to a staggering list of flaws. Mine was an utter lemon and I got really stuck on what was effectively a Beta car. THe company didn't stand behind it very well, either. "broken headbolt at 30,025 miles? normal wear and tear..."
I have a friend who works at Google and he gave me a glimpse of the creative processes at work at the very top...
During the Christmas party, Sergey and Larry were driving a large radio controlled SUV around the offices.
Nothing unusual there.
So a few weeks later this same SUV comes bumping around the corner, with the top ripped off and a remote controllable camera mounted
on the chassis. One of the two (Sergey & Larry) was navigating it, while the other was operating the camera.
I expect this is all part of their new Search Engine Strategy.
we love google, yes we do. without google we wouldn't know about this while searching for a louis vuitton leopardskin defrobnicator...
Well, maybe they can still allow close matches (until further french court notice) such as this or this or this or this. Heck, I can hardly remember how to spell it correctly anyway, V-U-I-T-T-O-N is not easy to remember how to spell, like D-I-O-R.
Reminds me of the Agora in Athens... Nikke, Abibas, Adiddas, etc...
"this sleek and shiny craft is the Mark I, this dinged and scratched one is the Mark II, this one with gaping holes and rust is the Mark III and this one infested with alien is the Mark AAAAGGGHHHH!!!!"
Oh, sure, they're all cute and fuzzy when their young... what happens when their all grown up, big and successful and looking after theirownspecialinterests?
With the drop in prices of LCD monitors, higher resolution will soon become the norm. People will up ir from 800x600 to run their new monitor at native res.
That isn't it. Users like large icons and letters. Usually they can't figure out how to change default font settings and such so they set thier screen res to 800x600 because that works good enought for them.
Why is Lumens (N/A) a con? And what does Lumens (N/A) mean? it doesn't use light?
The author probably slashdotted the site while writing and couldn't fill that part in.
Don't expect it to be bright enough to use as a Bat-Signal. OTOH, it's probably just the thing for those home slide-shows, which people wouldn't do at the cost of other projectors. Some may winge about the resolution, but I think 800x600 is good enough for most things as when I'm demoing apps, I target an 800x600 desktop, because most people around here are still using that even if higher resolution is available.
Dude, that's like saying GM would be dead if it wasn't for the automobile division.
General Motors and Ford have, for the past couple years, only shown a profit in the finance divisions. Automotive operations have broken even at best, but usually are racking up losses.
Microsoft is an OS (Desktop & Server), and Office software company!
Microsoft should be a technology company. They're still very profitable, thanks to all the locked in customers and upgrade paths, but for how much longer? We gripe a lot about their products for good reason, they don't have adequate competition to keep them on the rivet, making their products the best they can be, rather than the slop they release.
I guess the main influence is Open Source and freeware, which sort of prevent major software makers to gang up on consumers.
Actually we like Open Source, i.e. Linux, running on Consumer Electronics because it's hackable and we love hacking more than anything, even using the device for it's intended purpose.
"i've got a c64 emulator running in spare memory on the bigscreen TV. w00t!"
"what about the superbowl?"
"what superbowl?"
Fail to profit? Since when has Microsoft failed to profit? Individual organizations within MS maybe, but not as a whole.
If it weren't for the OS, Office and Server divisions, they'd be dead.
Many companies would have spun divisions like those off and retained some large chunk of stock to profit from as the new entity fought on even ground to survive. That Microsoft has kept each of these divisions under one roof has a lot to say about the shoddy security, bloat and often annoying 'features' in each package.
Microsoft will never change their strategy.... It's always going to be keep the markets cornered, and allow as little interoperability as possible.
Most of Microsoft's success can be chalked up to two failures by one other company...
IBM allows Bill Gates to own and sell MS-DOS under his own company's name, as IBM doesn't take the PC seriously.
IBM fails to protect their PC design, not taking PC's seriously, and clones flourish providing a ready market for MS-DOS
Most of everything else Microsoft has profited wildly from is centered around these two items. Microsoft has demonstrated that they are not a very inventive company by buying up lots of technology companies and immitating others. Where they have attempted to innovate in new markets they have usually fallen flat on their face and lost hundreds of millions of $. If it weren't for the O/S, Office and Server divisions Microsoft wouldn't be able to sputter so frequently.
Copy it, tying it to your own IP, proprietary architecture and co-opting it to erode better strategies and make it your own.
Bundle it.
???
Fail to Profit!!!
Re:what about plotting waypoints on the map?
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Mapping Google Maps
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It would be awesome if Google could completely take over the commercial mapping software application market (ie Streets and Trips/Mappoint and Street Atlas) by enabling routing/directions between the points on the map. Hell, allow us to then download the planned route back to the GPSs via a GPX and that would really rock.
While I've fiddled with it and found the interface to have it's up-sides and down-sides (not really very big considering it's a web app.) I think you're looking for functionality at a whole other level, i.e. competing with Delorme or such, which could prove a challenge. I've got the Delorme package on my PC at home and the volume of information its processing to produce things would kill Google's servers. Besides, Delorme is Topo and Google's isn't, and Topo information is actually very useful when travelling. When I moved west I drove a truck, pulling a trailer with my car on it, up a road I never should have taken. Perhaps the squiggly road on a decent map would have given the appropriate clue, not to take that road because of the high pass. Google could at least include some elevation data in their images as an option.
Wouldn't it be better if Microsoft was to fix their bloody insecure software instead??
Why, being the major operating system vendor on the planet and then charging subscription rates for anti-virus and anti-spyware would guarantee Bill Gates billions more $ to give to Africa, India, China and any other country he wants to (NOTE: Not an intended pub-<) curry favor with, by aiding the sick and the poor and generally being a heck of a nice guy in the public eye.
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How about this, in a Darwinian frame of reference:
this comment may not be deemed appropriate for some schools, where the octopus is viewed as a dietyI thought it was 3 hearts.
one for me, one for my baby and one more for the road
Next in the news:
2. Gbrowser
3. Ghosting
GCharity...
Microsoft buys Encarta
Wikipedia gives itself to Google.
Interesting..
The madde spellere strikes again: "This website does NOT anything to do with Google Inc. Every logos, trade marks and images are property of Google Inc "
I thought they already had that ... in Clippy!
"it looks like you're trying to open a trojan attachment to your email, would you like to
Quarrantine the file
Delete the file
Open the attachment anyway
Have me wipe your files and route the contents of your savings account to Microsoft for safe keeping?
It's a bit early to point the finger.
What? Wait until tomorrow? This isn't a Spyware problem, it's a virus scanning problem for your incoming mail.
I'm really glad that such companies do exist. I'm sick and tired with all comapnies that over-promise and under-deliver.
As Microsoft is often accused of, i.e. our beta testing program is release it to the public and see what goes wrong then patch it.
While Microsoft is omnipresent and therefore their bugs get a lot of press, there are any number of vendors of products who get it wrong on the first try but still send it out.
We had a vendor at my last place of work who modified payroll code and installed it, untested, just before production runs. Unforgivable in my eyes, and it did blow up hideously at least once (which is why you don't do such things.)
I felt I bought a Beta Pontiac Fiero, years ago, because the first year were highly undesirable due to a staggering list of flaws. Mine was an utter lemon and I got really stuck on what was effectively a Beta car. THe company didn't stand behind it very well, either. "broken headbolt at 30,025 miles? normal wear and tear..."
During the Christmas party, Sergey and Larry were driving a large radio controlled SUV around the offices.
Nothing unusual there.
So a few weeks later this same SUV comes bumping around the corner, with the top ripped off and a remote controllable camera mounted on the chassis. One of the two (Sergey & Larry) was navigating it, while the other was operating the camera.
I expect this is all part of their new Search Engine Strategy.
we love google, yes we do. without google we wouldn't know about this while searching for a louis vuitton leopardskin defrobnicator...
Reminds me of the Agora in Athens... Nikke, Abibas, Adiddas, etc...
Fleeting. Ha. Ho.
Almost as humorous as this.
Exactly.
"this sleek and shiny craft is the Mark I, this dinged and scratched one is the Mark II, this one with gaping holes and rust is the Mark III and this one infested with alien is the Mark AAAAGGGHHHH!!!!"
Oh, sure, they're all cute and fuzzy when their young ... what happens when their all grown up, big and successful and looking after their own special interests?
That isn't it. Users like large icons and letters. Usually they can't figure out how to change default font settings and such so they set thier screen res to 800x600 because that works good enought for them.
Me too, neither =(
Why is Lumens (N/A) a con? And what does Lumens (N/A) mean? it doesn't use light?
The author probably slashdotted the site while writing and couldn't fill that part in.
Don't expect it to be bright enough to use as a Bat-Signal. OTOH, it's probably just the thing for those home slide-shows, which people wouldn't do at the cost of other projectors. Some may winge about the resolution, but I think 800x600 is good enough for most things as when I'm demoing apps, I target an 800x600 desktop, because most people around here are still using that even if higher resolution is available.
General Motors and Ford have, for the past couple years, only shown a profit in the finance divisions. Automotive operations have broken even at best, but usually are racking up losses.
Microsoft is an OS (Desktop & Server), and Office software company!
Microsoft should be a technology company. They're still very profitable, thanks to all the locked in customers and upgrade paths, but for how much longer? We gripe a lot about their products for good reason, they don't have adequate competition to keep them on the rivet, making their products the best they can be, rather than the slop they release.
Actually we like Open Source, i.e. Linux, running on Consumer Electronics because it's hackable and we love hacking more than anything, even using the device for it's intended purpose.
"i've got a c64 emulator running in spare memory on the bigscreen TV. w00t!"
"what about the superbowl?"
"what superbowl?"
If it weren't for the OS, Office and Server divisions, they'd be dead.
Many companies would have spun divisions like those off and retained some large chunk of stock to profit from as the new entity fought on even ground to survive. That Microsoft has kept each of these divisions under one roof has a lot to say about the shoddy security, bloat and often annoying 'features' in each package.
Most of Microsoft's success can be chalked up to two failures by one other company...
IBM allows Bill Gates to own and sell MS-DOS under his own company's name, as IBM doesn't take the PC seriously.
IBM fails to protect their PC design, not taking PC's seriously, and clones flourish providing a ready market for MS-DOS
Most of everything else Microsoft has profited wildly from is centered around these two items. Microsoft has demonstrated that they are not a very inventive company by buying up lots of technology companies and immitating others. Where they have attempted to innovate in new markets they have usually fallen flat on their face and lost hundreds of millions of $. If it weren't for the O/S, Office and Server divisions Microsoft wouldn't be able to sputter so frequently.
See what everyone else is doing.
Copy it, tying it to your own IP, proprietary architecture and co-opting it to erode better strategies and make it your own.
Bundle it.
???
Fail to Profit!!!
While I've fiddled with it and found the interface to have it's up-sides and down-sides (not really very big considering it's a web app.) I think you're looking for functionality at a whole other level, i.e. competing with Delorme or such, which could prove a challenge. I've got the Delorme package on my PC at home and the volume of information its processing to produce things would kill Google's servers. Besides, Delorme is Topo and Google's isn't, and Topo information is actually very useful when travelling. When I moved west I drove a truck, pulling a trailer with my car on it, up a road I never should have taken. Perhaps the squiggly road on a decent map would have given the appropriate clue, not to take that road because of the high pass. Google could at least include some elevation data in their images as an option.
Why, being the major operating system vendor on the planet and then charging subscription rates for anti-virus and anti-spyware would guarantee Bill Gates billions more $ to give to Africa, India, China and any other country he wants to (NOTE: Not an intended pub-<) curry favor with, by aiding the sick and the poor and generally being a heck of a nice guy in the public eye.
What do you have against all these people?
I couldn't help but notice you left out the '???' step, but then again, I suppose all but the most gormless have that part figured out.
windows hungry! want more!
Do you remember Hot Butter & Popcorn?
Some even dance to it now.
Just because you consider a sixty-cycle hum a catchy tune makes it music not.