This isn't informative, it's a half-truth. So what if you can't create more energy? A huge amount of the energy that burning gas (exploding gas fumes, really) liberates is wasted in heat out the engine, heat out the gas pipe, and heat due to friction on the brake pads. Offhandedly dismissing the impact that reclaiming some of that wasted energy can have is ignorant. It's like looking at a river and thinking "Well, we can't make this water create any additional power". Build a dam and create a manmade lake, and you can generate billions of kilowatt hours per year.
> Anybody remember the Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, 32x Extension, and CD-Drive extension? Nobody knew what to buy because nobody knew what games were going to be made for which combination of hardware. That along with the prices deep sixxed all of the above hardware.
I can practically guarantee that the DS will be able to run GB/GBA games at the very least. Remember Gameboy Color? It did well, because it was backwards compatible. Nintendo may not be saying anything about it yet, but they're not stupid.
I guess that means that you guys didn't use Lookout, the single most useful plugin for Outlook. Since I'm forced to use it at work, at least Lookout makes it useful. Searching for old emails with Lookout is as easy as I can only assume GMail will be.
Not to nitpick, but this has little or nothing to do with economics. It's just a plain "common sense" management technique. That's not to say that keeping shareholders in the dark about what you think the true threats are to your business is the most effective business strategy, but it sure is par for the course in the world nowadays.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'"
-Isaac Asimov.
> I'm guessing USB mouse support still hasn't made it's way into Linux in a robust form yet?
I've been using my USB mouse totally flawlessly on my laptop for the better part of the year. I've grown out of distributions like SuSE and Redhat exactly because of your reaction. Selecting "USB mouse" doesn't work, must be Linux's crappy support!
I recognize that's what most people are looking for, I'm just saying, I hate the feeling of not knowing how something works on my computer, and worse yet is not knowing how something is broken on my computer.
This isn't new, Google has been tracking (some) clicks for years. Not everyone will see it for the same reason that not everyone has seen the new interface for the last couple of months: depending on the unique 'visitor id' in your Google preferences cookie, you may or may not.
As for the gloom-and-doom, IMHO this is totally benign. Google is most likely using these statistics to do usability testing ("How many links do people need to click on for this search to get what they're looking for?") or algorithm tweaking (actually using click-thrus as an input for PageRank).
Sure, they look like search results, but since they're in the same place as before, my eyes have been trained to totally ignore anything on the right side of the Google Results page. Even though they're not green (or whatever) anymore, I find it hard to believe that anyone who surfs the web more than 10 minutes a week would consider those to be "intrusive ads".
That's bug 132565. You'll need to type the bug number in here, since bugzilla blocks direct slashdot links.
The point to make is that this is a "known bug" and there's at least the intention to fix it (and, like any OSS project, you could fix it yourself and submit it). With IE's flawed box model, or Safari's sketchy table DOM, or Opera's non-existant XMLHttpRequest object, your only option is to wait.
This is an unfair comparison. There has not been any RotK theatrical trailer released yet. You are either referring to the low-quality leaked trailer or the preview featurette on the TTT DVD. In either case, it's unfair to compare the two.
On the other hand, taking a 1-chapter battle and turning it into half of the movie, and then muckying up Faramir and bringing the Ring to Osgiliath. That's just not forgivable.
But that doesn't mean I'm looking forward to Matrix 3 even close to as much as RotK. If you ignore the un-truthfulness-to-the-books, it's a fantastic movie. You can't say the same about Matrix Reloaded, sadly.
1) Those 890,000 signatures cost Issa $2M of his own fortune to collect. A Poor Republican wouldn't have been able to get them.
2) If a 40% approval rating is all it takes to vote a leader out of office with Repulicans' blessing, maybe we'll be seeing a Pataki recall campaign sometime soon?
Disaffected youth #1: I still believe that single penny transactions will revolutionize the net. Disaffected youth #2: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Disaffected youth #1: [dejectedly] I don't even know anymore.
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Check this out, a screenshot of a Beta version of the post-IPO google.com page has been leaked!
Leaked screenshot.
(Note: Yes, I am trolling and flamebaiting. Take that, Karma.)
This isn't informative, it's a half-truth. So what if you can't create more energy? A huge amount of the energy that burning gas (exploding gas fumes, really) liberates is wasted in heat out the engine, heat out the gas pipe, and heat due to friction on the brake pads. Offhandedly dismissing the impact that reclaiming some of that wasted energy can have is ignorant. It's like looking at a river and thinking "Well, we can't make this water create any additional power". Build a dam and create a manmade lake, and you can generate billions of kilowatt hours per year.
> Anybody remember the Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, 32x Extension, and CD-Drive extension? Nobody knew what to buy because nobody knew what games were going to be made for which combination of hardware. That along with the prices deep sixxed all of the above hardware.
I can practically guarantee that the DS will be able to run GB/GBA games at the very least. Remember Gameboy Color? It did well, because it was backwards compatible. Nintendo may not be saying anything about it yet, but they're not stupid.
I guess that means that you guys didn't use Lookout, the single most useful plugin for Outlook. Since I'm forced to use it at work, at least Lookout makes it useful. Searching for old emails with Lookout is as easy as I can only assume GMail will be.
And I'm not even kidding.
Not to nitpick, but this has little or nothing to do with economics. It's just a plain "common sense" management technique. That's not to say that keeping shareholders in the dark about what you think the true threats are to your business is the most effective business strategy, but it sure is par for the course in the world nowadays.
Am I the only one who realizes that a Ferengi bridesmaid would have to be naked to be realistic? Female Ferengi aren't permitted to wear clothes!
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'"
-Isaac Asimov.
> I'm guessing USB mouse support still hasn't made it's way into Linux in a robust form yet?
I've been using my USB mouse totally flawlessly on my laptop for the better part of the year. I've grown out of distributions like SuSE and Redhat exactly because of your reaction. Selecting "USB mouse" doesn't work, must be Linux's crappy support!
I recognize that's what most people are looking for, I'm just saying, I hate the feeling of not knowing how something works on my computer, and worse yet is not knowing how something is broken on my computer.
> Which technology do you mean exactly?
RTFA (or RTFM). It's an RFC for the IMP networking protocol. It looks like layers 2-4 all in one!
You are the winner.
from the real-submissions-unedited dept.
This is a neat April Fools joke. This is the second post in a row from this department, apparently they're accepting any and all story submissions.
This isn't new, Google has been tracking (some) clicks for years. Not everyone will see it for the same reason that not everyone has seen the new interface for the last couple of months: depending on the unique 'visitor id' in your Google preferences cookie, you may or may not.
As for the gloom-and-doom, IMHO this is totally benign. Google is most likely using these statistics to do usability testing ("How many links do people need to click on for this search to get what they're looking for?") or algorithm tweaking (actually using click-thrus as an input for PageRank).
Or two years too late.
Sure, they look like search results, but since they're in the same place as before, my eyes have been trained to totally ignore anything on the right side of the Google Results page. Even though they're not green (or whatever) anymore, I find it hard to believe that anyone who surfs the web more than 10 minutes a week would consider those to be "intrusive ads".
As long as you're looking a gift horse in the mouth, don't forget that you have to report the $13.86 check as income on your taxes next April!
This is a duplicate post!
</sarcasm>
That's bug 132565. You'll need to type the bug number in here, since bugzilla blocks direct slashdot links.
The point to make is that this is a "known bug" and there's at least the intention to fix it (and, like any OSS project, you could fix it yourself and submit it). With IE's flawed box model, or Safari's sketchy table DOM, or Opera's non-existant XMLHttpRequest object, your only option is to wait.
When at end of block,
semicolon does not need
to be in the code.
> US Government is spending $53,000,000 over the next 5 years to make sure everybody knows that this is a real note, so go get acquainted with one.
Well, you have to spend money to make money..
Yesterday's APOD was exactly this kind of image using the same kind of technique.
This is an unfair comparison. There has not been any RotK theatrical trailer released yet. You are either referring to the low-quality leaked trailer or the preview featurette on the TTT DVD. In either case, it's unfair to compare the two.
On the other hand, taking a 1-chapter battle and turning it into half of the movie, and then muckying up Faramir and bringing the Ring to Osgiliath. That's just not forgivable.
But that doesn't mean I'm looking forward to Matrix 3 even close to as much as RotK. If you ignore the un-truthfulness-to-the-books, it's a fantastic movie. You can't say the same about Matrix Reloaded, sadly.
1) Those 890,000 signatures cost Issa $2M of his own fortune to collect. A Poor Republican wouldn't have been able to get them.
2) If a 40% approval rating is all it takes to vote a leader out of office with Repulicans' blessing, maybe we'll be seeing a Pataki recall campaign sometime soon?
3) Georgy is a she.
Disaffected youth #1: I still believe that single penny transactions will revolutionize the net.
Disaffected youth #2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Disaffected youth #1: [dejectedly] I don't even know anymore.