The competition to Google won't come from the search engine space, it'll come from something which can provide a similar service but in a slightly different way. I'm guessing something like del.icio.ous or some machine learning system a maths whiz comes up with.
And here I thought institutions of higher learning were responsible for standing up against unjust practices by the government and corporations. Don't you think that is the individual's responsibility? I seem to remember students in the US protesting against the Vietnam war, in China students protesting against government oppression.
Now... We have US students whining about being caught drinking under age and infringing someone's (thousands of people's) copyright.
You see, there's a vital fact that seems to escape many people these days...
Freedom is responsibility. Freedom and responsibility are the same thing. For every responsibility you give to someone else, you are also giving them your freedom.
I think that's because US politics tends to be one dimensional. Left->right. Reality just isn't that simple, but the electoral system doesn't reflect this.
Sex evolved for a reason. It increases the diversity of the population. It allows a species to evolve faster and gives genes a better chance of surviving. Read Dawkins "The Selfish Gene".
No, other way around. I knew you'd say that, but no.
Subsidies make farming a particular crop more profitable, they encourage farmers to switch to produce the crop (It's profitable), they encourage overproduction to maximise the return on the subsidy and as the supply increases, the market value drops. Subsidies drive down prices. More subsidy is required to maintain profitability and more farmers are encouraged to produce the crop, supply increases further and the market value drops further. We're long past the point where subsidies were put in place to counter temporary market fluctuations.
BTW, the excess doesn't get thrown away, it ends up destroying agricultural markets in the third world, driving local farmers out of production, with the associated famine, death etc we regularly see on TV.
Insightful. I'm glad you noticed. Oh, he makes assumptions and then pushes them as far as he can, beyond the point that reasonable people are asking WTF?. It's the classic socialist hand wringing falling sky stupidity.
Is anyone who disagrees with you an idiot? Oh no. Only most of them. Sometimes I'm proven wrong, but they've got to be really good, and Monbiot isn't. He's an idiot.
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Which I assume is why America is having no problems in Iraq.
The competition to Google won't come from the search engine space, it'll come from something which can provide a similar service but in a slightly different way. I'm guessing something like del.icio.ous or some machine learning system a maths whiz comes up with.
Some ad agency start ups might want to do just that.
Or some economic emulation clone along the same sort of lines. Y'know teach em from the start how an economy works and what it takes to be successful.
Now... We have US students whining about being caught drinking under age and infringing someone's (thousands of people's) copyright.
You see, there's a vital fact that seems to escape many people these days...
Freedom is responsibility. Freedom and responsibility are the same thing. For every responsibility you give to someone else, you are also giving them your freedom.
Almost as if the university is responsible for the students behaviour. Aren't people responsible for their own actions these days?
Everyone else is doing it.
With the existing electoral system, only those in swing states matter. Most of the other votes are essentially discarded.
The future is here.
Every surface can be turned into an advert. Animated no less.
There is no leak alleged. Simply an observation that it appears to be consuming 1/4 of the RAM of one of our X login servers.
/. open and adblock extension:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
On this machine, with the settings you mentioned, with only
browser.cache.memory.capacity=0, browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers=0, config.trim_on_minimize=true
7642 1 54684 190536 7.8 12.1
That'd be 55Mb resident and 190Mb consumed in total. Firefox 2.0.3
The question is... Is it really using that much RAM or have the developers simply mmapped everything?
Your standard Bayesian classifier basically says:
Is this mail Junk? yes/no
And that's it. However it can be a bit smarter than that. It's possible to say something like:
Is this mail Junk, Linux, Business or Personal?
However, the accuracy drops rather dramatically, so...
What you need is a classifier which says:
Is this mail Junk? yes/no
Is this mail about Linux? yes/no
Is this mail about Business? yes/no
Is this mail about Personal? yes/no
And then simply tags a mail with all of the results which return yes. You need a separate training corpus for each question but that's easy to do.
So far it hasn't been done, but it's a better solution than your standard email filters.
No extensions running. I'll have a look at 3.0.
Hmmmmm, 285Mb with 2 windows and 2 tabs open. Only 18Mb shared too, which isn't a good sign for our multi user machines.
4331 me 15 0 285m 67m 18m S 1.7 3.4 0:27.10 firefox-bin
I don't know, is it windows guys developing it these days?
Off the top of my head:
Unix, shell scripting, C. There must be more.
Just a thought, but it makes sense to invest skills in technologies with proven survivability.
I think that's because US politics tends to be one dimensional. Left->right. Reality just isn't that simple, but the electoral system doesn't reflect this.
You would describe that as democracy?
Same thing.
If they simply auctioned them then the squatters would bid each other out of business.
Property is sold at market value. Domain names are sold at a flat rate. They should be auctioned.
It's just an indication that domain names are under priced.
No but science is making both sexes obsolete...
Sex evolved for a reason. It increases the diversity of the population. It allows a species to evolve faster and gives genes a better chance of surviving. Read Dawkins "The Selfish Gene".
Or maybe buy you some balls so you have the courage to put your name to what you write.
Subsidies make farming a particular crop more profitable, they encourage farmers to switch to produce the crop (It's profitable), they encourage overproduction to maximise the return on the subsidy and as the supply increases, the market value drops. Subsidies drive down prices. More subsidy is required to maintain profitability and more farmers are encouraged to produce the crop, supply increases further and the market value drops further. We're long past the point where subsidies were put in place to counter temporary market fluctuations.
BTW, the excess doesn't get thrown away, it ends up destroying agricultural markets in the third world, driving local farmers out of production, with the associated famine, death etc we regularly see on TV.