4 weeks ago for a week and a half. It sucked, but it wasn't as bad is it could have been because I made the mistake of looking it up on Wikipedia. That 5% chance of contracting viral meningitis just kept swimming around in my head, plus the possible chance of sterility. Curse you Wikipedia!
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Well, I actually live 20 minutes from Australia Zoo, I've bumped into Steve Irwin on a couple of occassions in Caboolture. He's a nice bloke, certainly a lot calmer than he appears on tv.
As for the rest, well, Crown Lager is my staple...
Would be nice if laptops came with built in GPS and a tiny application which sends the laptops location as soon as the thing boots up or waits until there is some form of internet connection and sends its information. Sounds simple.
We had an office over the road from the Carlton United Brewery factory in Victoria, Australia. My office looked directly over a beer-barrel conveyor belt. There was a hardware store around the corner with enough copper pipe to build a delivery system from the vats on the next floor up, gravity fed directly into my office. I drew up a plan and technical diagram and then presented it to the receptionist at the factory. She then passed it on to someone else with a wink and a smile (pretty blonde, made my day) and then received a phone call a few days later from the site officer declining the request to proceed but gave me full marks for the idea.
I always wondered if there was something which can perform binary comparisons with all attachments across a mail server, and if identical attachments appear in more than one in-box for a user, it just points to a single copy of the binary. Would have saved a ton of space in my last job, especially when all of executive management would send each other a copy of the same inspirational powerpoint presentation, 30 copies of the same 8 meg file could have been re-referenced to a single file...
And if they can't work as a team, they should be fired and security should escort them from the building. And if security can't work as a team, then they should be fired as well.
I even love saying the word team. You probably think I have a picture of my family on my desk - it's not. It's the A-Team. Bodie, Doyle, Tiger, Jewellery Man. The whole lot of them.
I can clearly state that high school consisted of various mixed states of matter. Most good looking girls were made of highly organised chrystalline structures, very rigid, but could be reduced to a liquid state with the correct application of energy. Some girls were a good solid. Some girls were perfect examples of Brownian motion, all over the place.
On a quantum level, you were better off dating the larger Bosons, as they were always friends with the best looking low mass Photons, even though you had to put up with the odd crazy bit of anti-matter sometimes, getting into the mix of things can certainly help out generating loads of Super-Fluids...
"We have substatially tested Windows XP and have found the operating system to be completely bug free. Out tests were conducted in a time period of 1 minute, which contains 60 seconds. As all seconds are effectively the same, we can safely say that Windows XP will be safe for all future occurances of seconds."
"Well, ladies and gentlemen of the press, we have successfully received 34 trillion bytes of data from our orbiting probe around Mars. Thanks to the support of top compression and encoding experts from the Join Picture Experts Group, we think we've found a pair of breasts near the polar ice cap. This, of course, is not only a strong indication of life on Mars, but states that the alien adult entertainment industry is very popular."
I currently don't see anything wrong with the process of performing a generic web search. So why have Microsoft tried to 'fix' it? From a users perspective they just expect a list of results in a highly readable order. Google do this very well, no fancy footwork to 'assist' the user, they know they're onto a good thing.
Now, I don't mind applications which use AJAX stuff as long as it benefits the overall user experience. This live.com offering seems to have it there just for the sake of it and in the process it breaks some UI rules (I have no idea how far down the list I am in the search results, the 'scroll' thing offers no feedback whatsoever, and I can never understand why people think the browsers own vertical scroll bars are ugly and then proceed to put their own scrollbars into the middle of the page somewhere) and it makes the page sluggish.
As I like to offer suggestions along with criticism, here's my steps to a Google killer:
Keep the results page simple.
Make it faster than Google
Improve on the PageRank algorithm (!)
Somehow index more than Google (!)
To accompany this list, here's an obligatory Einstein quote:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Even if they matched the capabilities of Google in terms of design they could improve the usage of the site through people just using the 'default' search address, much in the same was as people use IE as it's the web browser that comes out of the box.
Now, Microsoft have the personpower/raw money available to address these. If they offered me a job to do it, I'd probably turn it down as I'm allergic to flying chairs.
As for improving the experience for the web site owner, they could maybe provide a service where they provide search statistics for your site across their search engine so that you can improve your ranking somehow. Maybe provide a collaboration portion of the site, so if you as a user find a highly relevant site from your criteria you could manually assign a rank to the result.
Maybe it's the next step for these people, make tivo re-encode a mini version of the program it's just recorded and send it to your phone so you can watch it.
If you absolutely need to see the program and can't wait to get home because some things on TV are just too good to miss...
In 1997 I used to write software for capturing images during renal endoscopy exams, part of the job involved going to conventions and talking to physicians like Urologists and General Surgeons. One Urologist who was part of the VA hospital circuit in the U.S. told me that sometimes they receive kidneys and other related parts from vague sources with notes stating that they can get more of the same quality for a fixed price. They get binned, don't even reach the surgical floor. For most, the quality was never really that good, they could tell if the donor was deceased at the time of extraction and most were and had been for some time, but some looked very healthy indeed. But it was just a bio-hazard, no testing of the donor, no history, straight in the bin.
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I can't see it improving Jet Set Willy on my spectrum emulator, unless it makes the chunky pixels sharper...
4 weeks ago for a week and a half. It sucked, but it wasn't as bad is it could have been because I made the mistake of looking it up on Wikipedia. That 5% chance of contracting viral meningitis just kept swimming around in my head, plus the possible chance of sterility. Curse you Wikipedia!
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3. Profit!
It'll probably go down well in England. To quote Bill Bailey, maybe they should rename Vista to Operation Enduring Dissapointment.
Well, I actually live 20 minutes from Australia Zoo, I've bumped into Steve Irwin on a couple of occassions in Caboolture. He's a nice bloke, certainly a lot calmer than he appears on tv.
As for the rest, well, Crown Lager is my staple...
if(SearchText=='crikey') rank++;
Would be nice if laptops came with built in GPS and a tiny application which sends the laptops location as soon as the thing boots up or waits until there is some form of internet connection and sends its information. Sounds simple.
We had an office over the road from the Carlton United Brewery factory in Victoria, Australia. My office looked directly over a beer-barrel conveyor belt. There was a hardware store around the corner with enough copper pipe to build a delivery system from the vats on the next floor up, gravity fed directly into my office. I drew up a plan and technical diagram and then presented it to the receptionist at the factory. She then passed it on to someone else with a wink and a smile (pretty blonde, made my day) and then received a phone call a few days later from the site officer declining the request to proceed but gave me full marks for the idea.
If you don't ask, you'll never find out.
I think the pink'n'ponies scheme has already been patented somewhere, so even the GPL can't save us this time.
They are of course running at room temperature. You think it's heat that cuts through this mental abstraction you call 'matter'?
What could possibly go wrong?
There must be loads of energy inside a black hole, we just need to send in a spaceship to go get it.
Goatse.cx for $500 please. Daily double!
Question: This oriental girl does more than get clean in the bath, facing up to her brown fountain.
At least these muscles won't suffer from Brewers Droop...
I always wondered if there was something which can perform binary comparisons with all attachments across a mail server, and if identical attachments appear in more than one in-box for a user, it just points to a single copy of the binary. Would have saved a ton of space in my last job, especially when all of executive management would send each other a copy of the same inspirational powerpoint presentation, 30 copies of the same 8 meg file could have been re-referenced to a single file...
And if they can't work as a team, they should be fired and security should escort them from the building. And if security can't work as a team, then they should be fired as well.
I even love saying the word team. You probably think I have a picture of my family on my desk - it's not. It's the A-Team. Bodie, Doyle, Tiger, Jewellery Man. The whole lot of them.
I can clearly state that high school consisted of various mixed states of matter. Most good looking girls were made of highly organised chrystalline structures, very rigid, but could be reduced to a liquid state with the correct application of energy. Some girls were a good solid. Some girls were perfect examples of Brownian motion, all over the place.
On a quantum level, you were better off dating the larger Bosons, as they were always friends with the best looking low mass Photons, even though you had to put up with the odd crazy bit of anti-matter sometimes, getting into the mix of things can certainly help out generating loads of Super-Fluids...
"We have substatially tested Windows XP and have found the operating system to be completely bug free. Out tests were conducted in a time period of 1 minute, which contains 60 seconds. As all seconds are effectively the same, we can safely say that Windows XP will be safe for all future occurances of seconds."
"Well, ladies and gentlemen of the press, we have successfully received 34 trillion bytes of data from our orbiting probe around Mars. Thanks to the support of top compression and encoding experts from the Join Picture Experts Group, we think we've found a pair of breasts near the polar ice cap. This, of course, is not only a strong indication of life on Mars, but states that the alien adult entertainment industry is very popular."
Now, I don't mind applications which use AJAX stuff as long as it benefits the overall user experience. This live.com offering seems to have it there just for the sake of it and in the process it breaks some UI rules (I have no idea how far down the list I am in the search results, the 'scroll' thing offers no feedback whatsoever, and I can never understand why people think the browsers own vertical scroll bars are ugly and then proceed to put their own scrollbars into the middle of the page somewhere) and it makes the page sluggish.
As I like to offer suggestions along with criticism, here's my steps to a Google killer:
To accompany this list, here's an obligatory Einstein quote:
Even if they matched the capabilities of Google in terms of design they could improve the usage of the site through people just using the 'default' search address, much in the same was as people use IE as it's the web browser that comes out of the box.
Now, Microsoft have the personpower/raw money available to address these. If they offered me a job to do it, I'd probably turn it down as I'm allergic to flying chairs.
As for improving the experience for the web site owner, they could maybe provide a service where they provide search statistics for your site across their search engine so that you can improve your ranking somehow. Maybe provide a collaboration portion of the site, so if you as a user find a highly relevant site from your criteria you could manually assign a rank to the result.
Maybe it's the next step for these people, make tivo re-encode a mini version of the program it's just recorded and send it to your phone so you can watch it.
If you absolutely need to see the program and can't wait to get home because some things on TV are just too good to miss...
I'm sure the whole world is ready for films containing 20 minutes of people coughing.
I've paid to see films like that. The major in film studies only has a negative effect...
You're safe mate, Crownies only!
But I keep 'vials' of amber fluid in my fridge that came down from the sky on a plane. Truly a gift from the Carlton United Brewery gods.
In 1997 I used to write software for capturing images during renal endoscopy exams, part of the job involved going to conventions and talking to physicians like Urologists and General Surgeons. One Urologist who was part of the VA hospital circuit in the U.S. told me that sometimes they receive kidneys and other related parts from vague sources with notes stating that they can get more of the same quality for a fixed price. They get binned, don't even reach the surgical floor. For most, the quality was never really that good, they could tell if the donor was deceased at the time of extraction and most were and had been for some time, but some looked very healthy indeed. But it was just a bio-hazard, no testing of the donor, no history, straight in the bin.
Google has "Do no evil"
pfft, PayPal has nothing, except your money.