Re:wrong idea about Social Networks and search
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On Yahoo!'s Acquisitions
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I don’t see that as a way to save money on search, but more as a way to offer a different kind of search or, in trendy parlance, to make searches more relevant. Basically what you’re doing with the whole user tagging thing is getting a bunch of human brains to categorize things for you, and the structure of the system causes those brains to only work on parts of the system that they personally give a damn about. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the infrastructure needed to sustain that is actually more expensive in the long term than large clusters of servers calculating PageRank or some other algorithm.
Odd to see Google doing the me-too thing. As soon as I saw the clock widget I knew the API was gonna be the now-standard HTML/XML/Javascript format used by Konfabulator/Yahoo, Apple and (I assume) Microsoft. So what does Google bring to the party? I guess these widgets live on web servers rather than users’ hard drives, but that of course ties them into the browser window. Perhaps we can expect them to put out an executable soon that will let them exist outside the browser (and thus be fully useful), but that puts them at merely the same point the others are at.
Why the hell is everybody so hot and bothered about Widgets all of a sudden? I bought a Konfabulator license way back when, and pressing F12 brings up Apple’s Dashboard, yet I still check wunderground.com to see if the weather will be cooperating with my athletic endeavours a few hours into the future. Granted, I was one of those who thought the iPod was no big deal, but Widgets have been with us in their modern incarnation for a few years now, and world+dog still doesn’t seem to give a damn. Makes me think they really are just trying to keep up with the rest of the pack on this one.
The downside as I see it is that there’s an excellent chance that in the long run Diebold will be depicted as a good company that was badly run for a while by one bad man, but once he left, returned to goodness. This would make his resignation, ironically enough, a setback for that vanishingly small minority of us who care deeply about the legitimacy of our nation’s electoral process.
When I was a kid I built a variable frequency tone generator. Once I got it up above the range I could hear, I could make my dog go batshit. Not as in running around yelping, but scratching and chewing himself with a passion. Turns out it was the fleas that were going batshit; against his white fur, I could clearly see them start jumping incessanctly when I hit that certain range.
That’s what I was trying to find out, too. Unfortunately, IGN has not yet upgraded their content management system to include that little feature where random web surfers can read articles posted on their site. But if Thompson just got bounced by Roy Moore for being an over-the-top nutjob, well, I don’t know quite what to feel. But it certainly would put an interesting spin on things.
However, I honestly don’t remember... was Judge Moore ever reinstated? And if so, why?
One of the many pet peeves in my vast menagerie is the fact that I can’t take my cell phone with me when I visit a chemical plant, yet they “proved” that cell phones can’t ever ignite flammable vapors by screwing around with one and declaring it can’t happen.
Hell, I know lots of people who have proven that you can’t get hurt driving drunk by using the same methodology. (Well, I don’t know quite as many of them as I used to, but we’ll just chalk Cheryl’s death up to coincidence; technically I guess you could say it was the pavement displacing half of her noodle, and not the driver’s stunning degree of impairment that caused her to assume room temperature that night.)
I don’t have to worry about JavaScript exploits because I use the new super safe IE7! It utilizes Microsoft’s super new language, JScript! Download this super new web browser today and keep your Windows safe from all those evil hackers*!
That’s probably the single thing that bugs me the most about the Winders Empire: most of the time, when somebody buys a new PC, it’s because Winders simply stopped working or got so gummed up inside that it was effectively dead. So how do they punish the company whose product has failed so miserably as to convince them that the hardware itself has gone south? That’s right, shovel more money at them! That’ll learn ’em!
I mean, completely aside from the fact that they’re buying new hardware when the problem is solely in software (Yes, I know that usually means they’re getting faster, more modern stuff; but it’s not exactly what I would call an ‘informed choice’), they’re rewarding the people that forced them into buying faulty software in the first place!
With such a nuanced understanding of punishment and reward, I can only hope these people aren’t currently raising the next generation.
Oh, you mean some countries haven’t yet received news reports that America now operates secret prison camps in former Soviet Bloc nations and is doing the old abduct-and-torture bit just like the KGB used to?
Wow.
Well, you do at least know that Friends and Seinfeld are over, right?
The two scariest points about that list are that $1.60 is most definitely at the high end of negotiated royalties, and that half the items listed are the record label under various guises.
Except that they’re from different companies. The Winders rootkit is from XCP, the Mac thingy (don’t know quite what it is, but apparently not a rootkit at least) is from SunnComm.
Either you missed my point or I wasn’t clear, but I can type this faster than I can go back and check.
That statement of mine was directed at my fellow Mac users who tend to feel that we are immune from these problems. It could be said that we have a *much* stronger immune system, but we are not actually invulnerable. And a false sense of security and/or bravado amongst our numbers will not do us any good.
Thank you. That is exactly why I drive a small, highly manuverable car and pay close attention to conditions around me. I see people attempting high-energy autodarwination all the time, and am more than courteous enough to give their noble efforts all the space they may need.
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I don’t see that as a way to save money on search, but more as a way to offer a different kind of search or, in trendy parlance, to make searches more relevant. Basically what you’re doing with the whole user tagging thing is getting a bunch of human brains to categorize things for you, and the structure of the system causes those brains to only work on parts of the system that they personally give a damn about. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the infrastructure needed to sustain that is actually more expensive in the long term than large clusters of servers calculating PageRank or some other algorithm.
Odd to see Google doing the me-too thing. As soon as I saw the clock widget I knew the API was gonna be the now-standard HTML/XML/Javascript format used by Konfabulator/Yahoo, Apple and (I assume) Microsoft. So what does Google bring to the party? I guess these widgets live on web servers rather than users’ hard drives, but that of course ties them into the browser window. Perhaps we can expect them to put out an executable soon that will let them exist outside the browser (and thus be fully useful), but that puts them at merely the same point the others are at.
Why the hell is everybody so hot and bothered about Widgets all of a sudden? I bought a Konfabulator license way back when, and pressing F12 brings up Apple’s Dashboard, yet I still check wunderground.com to see if the weather will be cooperating with my athletic endeavours a few hours into the future. Granted, I was one of those who thought the iPod was no big deal, but Widgets have been with us in their modern incarnation for a few years now, and world+dog still doesn’t seem to give a damn. Makes me think they really are just trying to keep up with the rest of the pack on this one.
Oh, what a beautiful symbol it is though!
The downside as I see it is that there’s an excellent chance that in the long run Diebold will be depicted as a good company that was badly run for a while by one bad man, but once he left, returned to goodness. This would make his resignation, ironically enough, a setback for that vanishingly small minority of us who care deeply about the legitimacy of our nation’s electoral process.
But hey, I’d love to be wrong about this.
Oh SHIT, did I leave the webcam on again?!?!?!?
Then you need to get out more!
My personal favorite...
How do you know if your stage is level?
The drummer drools from both sides of his mouth.
Hmm. I guess someone with mod points isn’t exactly an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan. Oh well. Maybe I’ll try something from Phantom next time.
Were?
When I was a kid I built a variable frequency tone generator. Once I got it up above the range I could hear, I could make my dog go batshit. Not as in running around yelping, but scratching and chewing himself with a passion. Turns out it was the fleas that were going batshit; against his white fur, I could clearly see them start jumping incessanctly when I hit that certain range.
So maybe his kids are just nasty.
Tell me what’s a happening!
That’s what I was trying to find out, too. Unfortunately, IGN has not yet upgraded their content management system to include that little feature where random web surfers can read articles posted on their site. But if Thompson just got bounced by Roy Moore for being an over-the-top nutjob, well, I don’t know quite what to feel. But it certainly would put an interesting spin on things.
However, I honestly don’t remember... was Judge Moore ever reinstated? And if so, why?
Sssh. Ratings, my dear boy, ratings.
One of the many pet peeves in my vast menagerie is the fact that I can’t take my cell phone with me when I visit a chemical plant, yet they “proved” that cell phones can’t ever ignite flammable vapors by screwing around with one and declaring it can’t happen.
Hell, I know lots of people who have proven that you can’t get hurt driving drunk by using the same methodology. (Well, I don’t know quite as many of them as I used to, but we’ll just chalk Cheryl’s death up to coincidence; technically I guess you could say it was the pavement displacing half of her noodle, and not the driver’s stunning degree of impairment that caused her to assume room temperature that night.)
I don’t have to worry about JavaScript exploits because I use the new super safe IE7! It utilizes Microsoft’s super new language, JScript! Download this super new web browser today and keep your Windows safe from all those evil hackers*!
*and other assorted open source terrorists
That’s probably the single thing that bugs me the most about the Winders Empire: most of the time, when somebody buys a new PC, it’s because Winders simply stopped working or got so gummed up inside that it was effectively dead. So how do they punish the company whose product has failed so miserably as to convince them that the hardware itself has gone south? That’s right, shovel more money at them! That’ll learn ’em!
I mean, completely aside from the fact that they’re buying new hardware when the problem is solely in software (Yes, I know that usually means they’re getting faster, more modern stuff; but it’s not exactly what I would call an ‘informed choice’), they’re rewarding the people that forced them into buying faulty software in the first place!
With such a nuanced understanding of punishment and reward, I can only hope these people aren’t currently raising the next generation.
Oh, you mean some countries haven’t yet received news reports that America now operates secret prison camps in former Soviet Bloc nations and is doing the old abduct-and-torture bit just like the KGB used to?
Wow.
Well, you do at least know that Friends and Seinfeld are over, right?
From the so-interesting-needs-no-nouns dept.
...the use of Sonic Weapons to combat copyright violations
Kind of a “live by the sword, die by the sword” sort of thing?
Excellent question. 400 comments so far, and not a single mention of what the hell those .kexts actually are.
The two scariest points about that list are that $1.60 is most definitely at the high end of negotiated royalties, and that half the items listed are the record label under various guises.
Except that they’re from different companies. The Winders rootkit is from XCP, the Mac thingy (don’t know quite what it is, but apparently not a rootkit at least) is from SunnComm.
I think that EVERYBODY can use good grammer if they want to.
They’re also welcome to spell it correctly if they please.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Great. They’re letting MCSEs post to slashdot now?
Just great.
Either you missed my point or I wasn’t clear, but I can type this faster than I can go back and check.
That statement of mine was directed at my fellow Mac users who tend to feel that we are immune from these problems. It could be said that we have a *much* stronger immune system, but we are not actually invulnerable. And a false sense of security and/or bravado amongst our numbers will not do us any good.
In other words, I agree with you completely.
Thank you. That is exactly why I drive a small, highly manuverable car and pay close attention to conditions around me. I see people attempting high-energy autodarwination all the time, and am more than courteous enough to give their noble efforts all the space they may need.
Most people are too stupid to handle driving and shifting at the same time.
Step 3: Darwin!