I disagree with the find box issue. Because find works so effortlessly in FireFox, I don't even need to see the text in the box most of the time. It doesn't seem like "a coin toss", it's an obvious choice to remove clutter.
The new tab issue is interesting. I don't mind the blank tab, but "inheriting" the existing history could be very valuable.
Upon searching for a rather unique phrase I ran across in a blog, I see that the main Google index contains two hits for that phrase, both at the blog, and the blogsearch contains nine hits for that phrase, all from the same blog.
Which implies a mixed drink. This sounds more like it was brewed with the given combination, a sort of cross between cyser (apple mead) and braggot (barley mead).
I jest, but in some respects, it seems like a couple months of student hacking could do harm as well as good. It's not exactly condusive to good development practices.
The smaller the package the more each gig costs. That's the way Apple and every other portable audio maker on the market sets their price.
Very true, and I have no problem with Apple making different products with different capacity/size/price trade-offs. The problem is, they cancelled the mini, and so I've lost my ability to make the choice that I find most appealing.
OK, so the display is color. However, if I'm interested in a music player, want music. I see the nano as a step backwards because the 4GB mini was $199, so I either get half the storage for the same price, or I pay $50 more for that 4G.
Whether the child was a hybrid is subject to debate. Given that the judgement is not settled and there's only one such skeleton, it would seem a bit rash to claim it to be a cold hard fact.
And, as the article mentions (but doesn't go into detail on), this is why reproducibility is so important.
Let's say a scientist comes up with a new idea, does the research, and publishes a result. OK, assuming we buy the article's premise, there's a 0.5 chance s/he's made a mistake. Now another scientist and then a third duplicate the experiment and get the same result. The odds that the original proposition is in error drops to 0.25, then to 0.125. The odds are now 8:1 the result is valid.
While it sounds like you're saying long file names and multiple directory levels are the cause of operating system instability, I suspect that's not what you mean.
I think you mean that these systems are very stripped down, haven't been modified for decades, and are consquently well-debugged.
This, of course, is exactly why no one wants to be involved with them. The tools are ancient and the technology is obsolete. It's like having a coal-fired steam engine. Yeah, it still works, but who wants to shovel coal by hand when you could have a natural gas line doing the work for you.
Until the banking and financial industries demand rock-solid implementations of modern technology, they're going to look at the old stuff as far safer. It just comes with a price, there's no one who wants to shovel coal any more.
Yes, that important 59% number is at the bottom of the article. The point was that search is not monolithic and not all aspects are controlled by Google.
Oh, and local search is probably more important than you think. Not only is it the fastest growing segment of search, it accounts for about 25% of search.
A Kelsey Group study released last month found that local commercial searches -- those seeking merchants "near my home or work" -- now represent 25 percent of all searches being performed by online buyers. That's a much higher number than analysts had expected.
Despite sampling errors and the ever-so-witty paraphrase of Samuel Clemens, your links still show that Google is no monopoly. In fact, the link from Clickz, that shows the highest ranking for Google, is to a story with the following first line:
Yahoo! local (local.yahoo.com) drew 4.4 times the number of visitors as Google Local (local.google.com) in July 2005
Hard to be a monopoly when one of your competitors attracts 4x more visitors.
You are in fact, quite correct to question those numbers. Let's look at the original quote.
Google, Mr. Hoffman said, has caused "across the board a 25 to 50 percent salary inflation for engineers in Silicon Valley" - or at least those in a position to weigh competing offers.
First, Mr. Hoffman begins with a load of steaming hyperbole. Then the reporter appears to add some facts to the stew.
It appears that there has been salary inflation for those who have highly desirable skillsets. However, I can tell you for damn sure that there has not been across the board salary inflation. Ask any engineer in the valley how much his/her salary increased in the past two years.
Google is nowhere near to being a monopoly. If you look at recent results from MediaMetrix, you'll see that Google commands a little over 1/3 of the "market" for search.
Google 36.5% Yahoo 30.5% MNS 15.5% AOL 9.9% Ask/Exite 6.1%
Well, this is getting pretty far off topic, but if you define it that way, nobody really knows what Christianity is.
There are books (written by men) who claim to report his teachings, but for one thing, most likely none of the writers were first-hand observers, and for another, only the books that the church approved of are included in the Bible. There were other "gospels", just as old as the current four, that were not included by the church committees that defined what the Bible should be. Even now, the list of books in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles differ.
The bulk of the new testament is the teachings of Paul (Saul of Tarsus), another man, who never apparently met Jesus/Yeshua in the flesh. So all you really have is second-hand sources and a guy who heard voices after he fell on his head. It's not necessarily untrue, but it's a long way from being able to reliably say that you know what Christ's teachings were.
Christianity is a man-made institution. Yeshua of Galilee was a Jew. As far as is known, he never claimed to be founding a new religion. Of course, Judaism is a man-made institution as well. It's pretty difficult to define what either one is if you leave humans out of the mix, since they created them, defined (or at the very least interpreted) the rules, and are the current guardians of the one true way (of which there are many.)
I agree that blaming a past decline on one of these recent actions is not valid. However, there is reason for concern when proposals like the above are being put forward.
Christianity, has in fact, been quite hostile to science when science conflicts with established dogma, Galileo being the prime example, and Darwin the most recent. In fact, as recently as 1968, it was illegal to teach evolution in some states. Those laws were declared unconstituional by the Supreme Court, but the fundamentalist right is attempting to roll back the clock, and have had recent sucess in Kansas.
Don't some of the widgets run more or less all the time? I also recall seeing that some of the first versions had serious memory leaks, in which case you'd be swapping more frequently as well.
"A big emphasis is going to be performance per watt," -- Bill Calder, an Intel spokesman.
"When we look at Intel, they've got great performance, yes, but they've got something else that's very important to us. Just as important as performance, is power consumption. And the way we look at it is performance per watt. For one watt of power how much performance do you get? And when we look at the future road maps projected out in mid-2006 and beyond, what we see is the PowerPC gives us sort of 15 units of performance per watt, but the Intel road map in the future gives us 70, and so this tells us what we have to do." -- Steve Jobs, Apple CEO
It's not the idea that he can go out and read what some random teenager has posted on a blog that he likes, it's the idea that the web is becoming more "write friendly."
For a while, you had to host your own server or be proficient in markup to get stuff onto the web, and things were looking very corporate.
What TBL originally had in mind was a read/write medium, and he's happy to see that the ability to write is catching up.
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I don't think 100 employees and trial phase really count as downsizing.
You're right about Notes, though.
I disagree with the find box issue. Because find works so effortlessly in FireFox, I don't even need to see the text in the box most of the time. It doesn't seem like "a coin toss", it's an obvious choice to remove clutter.
The new tab issue is interesting. I don't mind the blank tab, but "inheriting" the existing history could be very valuable.
Upon searching for a rather unique phrase I ran across in a blog, I see that the main Google index contains two hits for that phrase, both at the blog, and the blogsearch contains nine hits for that phrase, all from the same blog.
Which implies a mixed drink. This sounds more like it was brewed with the given combination, a sort of cross between cyser (apple mead) and braggot (barley mead).
To be followed by the "Bleak Winter of QA".
I jest, but in some respects, it seems like a couple months of student hacking could do harm as well as good. It's not exactly condusive to good development practices.
The smaller the package the more each gig costs. That's the way Apple and every other portable audio maker on the market sets their price.
Very true, and I have no problem with Apple making different products with different capacity/size/price trade-offs. The problem is, they cancelled the mini, and so I've lost my ability to make the choice that I find most appealing.
OK, so the display is color. However, if I'm interested in a music player, want music. I see the nano as a step backwards because the 4GB mini was $199, so I either get half the storage for the same price, or I pay $50 more for that 4G.
Whether the child was a hybrid is subject to debate. Given that the judgement is not settled and there's only one such skeleton, it would seem a bit rash to claim it to be a cold hard fact.
And, as the article mentions (but doesn't go into detail on), this is why reproducibility is so important.
Let's say a scientist comes up with a new idea, does the research, and publishes a result. OK, assuming we buy the article's premise, there's a 0.5 chance s/he's made a mistake. Now another scientist and then a third duplicate the experiment and get the same result. The odds that the original proposition is in error drops to 0.25, then to 0.125. The odds are now 8:1 the result is valid.
See cold fusion for an example of the converse.
While it sounds like you're saying long file names and multiple directory levels are the cause of operating system instability, I suspect that's not what you mean.
I think you mean that these systems are very stripped down, haven't been modified for decades, and are consquently well-debugged.
This, of course, is exactly why no one wants to be involved with them. The tools are ancient and the technology is obsolete. It's like having a coal-fired steam engine. Yeah, it still works, but who wants to shovel coal by hand when you could have a natural gas line doing the work for you.
Until the banking and financial industries demand rock-solid implementations of modern technology, they're going to look at the old stuff as far safer. It just comes with a price, there's no one who wants to shovel coal any more.
Having just looked at the titles availble from redbox, I'd say the one constant factor in your options is a subpar selection of movies.
If you're going to flack for someone, at least pick Netflix, or someone who's got more than two or three watchable films.
Let me see, what you believe is outweights measurable results by reliable sources. Are you a creationist, too, by any chance?
Yes, that important 59% number is at the bottom of the article. The point was that search is not monolithic and not all aspects are controlled by Google.
Oh, and local search is probably more important than you think. Not only is it the fastest growing segment of search, it accounts for about 25% of search.
A Kelsey Group study released last month found that local commercial searches -- those seeking merchants "near my home or work" -- now represent 25 percent of all searches being performed by online buyers. That's a much higher number than analysts had expected.
Despite sampling errors and the ever-so-witty paraphrase of Samuel Clemens, your links still show that Google is no monopoly. In fact, the link from Clickz, that shows the highest ranking for Google, is to a story with the following first line:
Yahoo! local (local.yahoo.com) drew 4.4 times the number of visitors as Google Local (local.google.com) in July 2005
Hard to be a monopoly when one of your competitors attracts 4x more visitors.
You are in fact, quite correct to question those numbers. Let's look at the original quote.
Google, Mr. Hoffman said, has caused "across the board a 25 to 50 percent salary inflation for engineers in Silicon Valley" - or at least those in a position to weigh competing offers.
First, Mr. Hoffman begins with a load of steaming hyperbole. Then the reporter appears to add some facts to the stew.
It appears that there has been salary inflation for those who have highly desirable skillsets. However, I can tell you for damn sure that there has not been across the board salary inflation. Ask any engineer in the valley how much his/her salary increased in the past two years.
Well, this is getting pretty far off topic, but if you define it that way, nobody really knows what Christianity is.
There are books (written by men) who claim to report his teachings, but for one thing, most likely none of the writers were first-hand observers, and for another, only the books that the church approved of are included in the Bible. There were other "gospels", just as old as the current four, that were not included by the church committees that defined what the Bible should be. Even now, the list of books in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles differ.
The bulk of the new testament is the teachings of Paul (Saul of Tarsus), another man, who never apparently met Jesus/Yeshua in the flesh. So all you really have is second-hand sources and a guy who heard voices after he fell on his head. It's not necessarily untrue, but it's a long way from being able to reliably say that you know what Christ's teachings were.
Christianity is a man-made institution. Yeshua of Galilee was a Jew. As far as is known, he never claimed to be founding a new religion. Of course, Judaism is a man-made institution as well. It's pretty difficult to define what either one is if you leave humans out of the mix, since they created them, defined (or at the very least interpreted) the rules, and are the current guardians of the one true way (of which there are many.)
Well, it's certainly true that Bush recently promoted teaching of ID, and shortly thereafter, so did another key member of his administration, Senate majority leader Bill First.
I agree that blaming a past decline on one of these recent actions is not valid. However, there is reason for concern when proposals like the above are being put forward.
Christianity, has in fact, been quite hostile to science when science conflicts with established dogma, Galileo being the prime example, and Darwin the most recent. In fact, as recently as 1968, it was illegal to teach evolution in some states. Those laws were declared unconstituional by the Supreme Court, but the fundamentalist right is attempting to roll back the clock, and have had recent sucess in Kansas.
The reduction in power will enable a new class of devices to be created at the 0.5W marker - the Handtop.
Also known as the video iPod, perhaps?
Don't some of the widgets run more or less all the time? I also recall seeing that some of the first versions had serious memory leaks, in which case you'd be swapping more frequently as well.
It's pretty clear they did.
"A big emphasis is going to be performance per watt," -- Bill Calder, an Intel spokesman.
"When we look at Intel, they've got great performance, yes, but they've got something else that's very important to us. Just as important as performance, is power consumption. And the way we look at it is performance per watt. For one watt of power how much performance do you get? And when we look at the future road maps projected out in mid-2006 and beyond, what we see is the PowerPC gives us sort of 15 units of performance per watt, but the Intel road map in the future gives us 70, and so this tells us what we have to do." -- Steve Jobs, Apple CEO
...at the line from King Henry VI, Part II
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
-- William Shakespeare
It's not the idea that he can go out and read what some random teenager has posted on a blog that he likes, it's the idea that the web is becoming more "write friendly."
For a while, you had to host your own server or be proficient in markup to get stuff onto the web, and things were looking very corporate.
What TBL originally had in mind was a read/write medium, and he's happy to see that the ability to write is catching up.
The canonical investigation here:
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1030/ddj9309d/