German low-level schools are not prisons for the stupid, but rather vocationally oriented Realschule (welding, carpentry, etc.)
The Realschule is in the middle of the tiered system. At the bottom is the Hauptschule. And while "prison for the stupid" is rather harsh, it's a reality that those graduating from the Hauptschule have a very hard time getting a job in today's Germany. That was different a couple of decades ago. A worker would graduate from the Hauptschule and then most likely find an apprenticeship somewhere. Today, those apprenticeships are taken by graduates from the Realschule or even the Gymnasium, the highest of the three school forms. There's a nice (as usual, long:)) German term for this problem: Ausbildungsmisere.
Code I have on my site in some ZIP file has obviously been downloaded, unpacked and indexed. Not that this process would be so hard, especially for Google with all of its technology in place, but my site isn't anywhere near important (and code is not in CVS and it's not on Sourceforge or one of the other repositories) and they have all of my little tools crawled and the snippets they show are very insightful for the searcher. A job well done.
Google's AdSense service has problems on a regular basis. Some of the smaller new beta projects have even more. "Google reliability" depends on the exact service. Web search runs smoothly, but I've also encountered outages there.
What is Japan's obsession/fascination with robots? Is that fascination really that much bigger than in other countries, or is that just my perception? Is there some historical reason for this?
For example, changes were not posted until approved by a randomly assigned editor. The random part is important.
This contradicts Wikipedia's principle of everybody works on what they like and understand best. If I have to start editing articles on fly-fishing or the Italian opera of the 18th century I'm outta there.
...if all the interviewee will have to do in the job is solving riddles. If not, all those other qualities that might come in handy should be checked for as well.
I think there is a preselection, but a different one. I've come across the same images several times. Seems like they only show a certain set of images.
"Not keeping data like this" doesn't make any sense at all and doesn't accomplish any good for customers. Indeed there is great value in understanding what searches are made and how the search process can be improved. Keeping this kind of data secure is sufficient in my mind. The last two sentences are something I would agree with.
Doesn't AOL simply query Google? I don't think they're doing research to improve searches. And Google itself obviously gets the queries so they can use it to improve the "search experience". The only reason I've heard why AOL keeps query data is to offer their clients a search history of one month.
There are a couple of lines in those logs that have supposedly led AOL users to my site. However, I can't verify a single one of those with my own logs. Any site owners out there who were more successful? Any explanation for that phenomenon?
Is there some project collecting translations for typical words or phrases in programs? Combined with a decent API this could save a lot of work. Such a project would start with the usual suspects like the "Open..." in the File | Open menu item in Spanish and could include more obscure terms like "quantization coefficient" in Swahili if someone cares to translate that.
Whatever other words or phrases a particular project requires its authors will have to translate themselves.
Keeping these images, even for law enforcement purposes, is a violation of the privacy of children who have already been subjected to a horrific violation.
A lot of evidence of gruesome crimes is kept, for various reasons. I don't quite see how the suffering of the victims is enlarged if the evidence is kept somewhere. New techniques may arise which demand the originals in order to gain additional knowledge. Think DNA testing.
With child porn images, I don't know. Maybe they can use them to train a system which recognizes them automatically. Unlikely, but still.
Just wanted to use this story to ask an unrelated question: did RMS ever speak about Wikipedia in some interview or speech? I only find Wikipedia material on him with a Web search.
Hardly. Remember the story just a couple of days ago about which operating system and browser different companies' employees use? Google employees mostly use Windows! (Insert huge disclaimer about the unreliability of these stats here).
To throw in some numbers from my site: Googlers coming to it with Linux: 9, with Windows: 2.
Too small a sample size, I know. But it was the same tendency towards Linux last month: Linux: 11, Windows: 1.
Especially in a multicultural country, people are used to learning unfamiliar names. If I can handle Thai, Cambodian or Hindi names, I can deal with a damn Norwegian!
My Norwegian is a bit rusty.
Is this guy pronounced the same way? Given the importance of royalty gossip (sigh), it's hard not to hear that name at least once a week while zapping TV channels. At least here in Europe, where we only have royalty, not real celebrities like Ms. Hilton.
Google has the best search results. Microsoft employees know that. They use the best tool for the job. So?
Wasn't there a Slashdot story in the past on how a lot of the Microsoft researchers use Linux machines for their daily work? If it makes them do their job better (because they come from a Unix background), why would anyone forbid that?
Besides, does every secretary working at Microsoft have to know they do search as well and are in some competition with Google? Microsoft is much bigger than Google and does a lot more.
With Matt Cutts' blog and GoogleGuy on that webmaster forum and the many interviews some of Google's higher ups give there is a lot of information going out to the public.
What are the things people think Google should publish which they are not at the moment?
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German low-level schools are not prisons for the stupid, but rather vocationally oriented Realschule (welding, carpentry, etc.)
:)) German term for this problem: Ausbildungsmisere.
The Realschule is in the middle of the tiered system. At the bottom is the Hauptschule. And while "prison for the stupid" is rather harsh, it's a reality that those graduating from the Hauptschule have a very hard time getting a job in today's Germany. That was different a couple of decades ago. A worker would graduate from the Hauptschule and then most likely find an apprenticeship somewhere. Today, those apprenticeships are taken by graduates from the Realschule or even the Gymnasium, the highest of the three school forms. There's a nice (as usual, long
I am not sure I would care to watch 1,000 year old porn, probably a little too tame.
You obviously have no idea what was going on in good ol' Rome back in the day.
I've had it switched on for ages. I sometimes wonder why it's off by default.
Some reasons against pipelining.
Code I have on my site in some ZIP file has obviously been downloaded, unpacked and indexed. Not that this process would be so hard, especially for Google with all of its technology in place, but my site isn't anywhere near important (and code is not in CVS and it's not on Sourceforge or one of the other repositories) and they have all of my little tools crawled and the snippets they show are very insightful for the searcher. A job well done.
Google's AdSense service has problems on a regular basis. Some of the smaller new beta projects have even more. "Google reliability" depends on the exact service. Web search runs smoothly, but I've also encountered outages there.
What is Japan's obsession/fascination with robots? Is that fascination really that much bigger than in other countries, or is that just my perception? Is there some historical reason for this?
Use the noarchive meta element. You want to be indexed, but not archived/cached. Those are different things.
For example, changes were not posted until approved by a randomly assigned editor. The random part is important.
This contradicts Wikipedia's principle of everybody works on what they like and understand best. If I have to start editing articles on fly-fishing or the Italian opera of the 18th century I'm outta there.
...if all the interviewee will have to do in the job is solving riddles. If not, all those other qualities that might come in handy should be checked for as well.
If that's all it was, then why has no one else been able to create an equivalent tool to Joerg's?
You make it sound like Joerg was all hot air, and not a extremely technically cable person.
Being a good developer and "letting success go to one's head" don't rule each other out.
I think there is a preselection, but a different one. I've come across the same images several times. Seems like they only show a certain set of images.
Can someone provide link to proxy lists? Are they hard-coded into FoxyProxy or is there a separate download?
"Not keeping data like this" doesn't make any sense at all and doesn't accomplish any good for customers. Indeed there is great value in understanding what searches are made and how the search process can be improved. Keeping this kind of data secure is sufficient in my mind. The last two sentences are something I would agree with.
Doesn't AOL simply query Google? I don't think they're doing research to improve searches. And Google itself obviously gets the queries so they can use it to improve the "search experience". The only reason I've heard why AOL keeps query data is to offer their clients a search history of one month.
People tend to search for names of people they know from their workplace, school, community.
There are a couple of lines in those logs that have supposedly led AOL users to my site. However, I can't verify a single one of those with my own logs. Any site owners out there who were more successful? Any explanation for that phenomenon?
You have a strange idea of "funny". If your interpretation of events is half true, I'd call that "sad" at best.
Could this news item be any less interesting?
And for everything else there's Slashdot.
Is there some project collecting translations for typical words or phrases in programs? Combined with a decent API this could save a lot of work. Such a project would start with the usual suspects like the "Open..." in the File | Open menu item in Spanish and could include more obscure terms like "quantization coefficient" in Swahili if someone cares to translate that.
Whatever other words or phrases a particular project requires its authors will have to translate themselves.
Keeping these images, even for law enforcement purposes, is a violation of the privacy of children who have already been subjected to a horrific violation.
A lot of evidence of gruesome crimes is kept, for various reasons. I don't quite see how the suffering of the victims is enlarged if the evidence is kept somewhere. New techniques may arise which demand the originals in order to gain additional knowledge. Think DNA testing.
With child porn images, I don't know. Maybe they can use them to train a system which recognizes them automatically. Unlikely, but still.
Just wanted to use this story to ask an unrelated question: did RMS ever speak about Wikipedia in some interview or speech? I only find Wikipedia material on him with a Web search.
Hardly. Remember the story just a couple of days ago about which operating system and browser different companies' employees use? Google employees mostly use Windows! (Insert huge disclaimer about the unreliability of these stats here).
To throw in some numbers from my site: Googlers coming to it with Linux: 9, with Windows: 2.
Too small a sample size, I know. But it was the same tendency towards Linux last month: Linux: 11, Windows: 1.
Especially in a multicultural country, people are used to learning unfamiliar names. If I can handle Thai, Cambodian or Hindi names, I can deal with a damn Norwegian!
My Norwegian is a bit rusty.
Is this guy pronounced the same way? Given the importance of royalty gossip (sigh), it's hard not to hear that name at least once a week while zapping TV channels. At least here in Europe, where we only have royalty, not real celebrities like Ms. Hilton.
Google has the best search results. Microsoft employees know that. They use the best tool for the job. So?
Wasn't there a Slashdot story in the past on how a lot of the Microsoft researchers use Linux machines for their daily work? If it makes them do their job better (because they come from a Unix background), why would anyone forbid that?
Besides, does every secretary working at Microsoft have to know they do search as well and are in some competition with Google? Microsoft is much bigger than Google and does a lot more.
With Matt Cutts' blog and GoogleGuy on that webmaster forum and the many interviews some of Google's higher ups give there is a lot of information going out to the public.
What are the things people think Google should publish which they are not at the moment?