Since the link you follow is a result of the search, it's got the content baked-in.
Those sites that were spying on search results to decide what to do were trying to be too smart.
Hopefully what this really fixes is the massive disconnect between prices reported by Google Shopping and the price shown on the click-through, which happens so often that it must be the result of futzing with what Google sees and what the user sees for the same search term.
shortly before the north american continent collides with the asian continent
Actually, that happened a long time ago. Notheast Siberia and Northern Japan are on the North American plate. The Bering Strait is fairly recently dry land that has become depressed due to the compressive stress.
Interfaces are key, and the things you can access and control through them are as well. We've got no workable neural-analogue anything. Speech recognition is barely working. I'm looking for barrier reduction on the order of Larry Wall's making the language figure out what type $foo is from its contents and context, instead of my having to declare it as string or array or any of a hundred niggling variants of number.
I don't even do UI programming because just a pixel depth under the hood it's a pain in the ass only an accountant could love. And I save my accounting love for my brokerage spreadsheets.
Amazon isn't a marketplace. In a marketplace you may have to rent a stall, but you are responsible for your own marketing and you deal with the customers. Amazon's reseller thing is much less personable than that. They don't even check that the thing in the bin in the warehouse is the thing they display in the box on your screen. And your recourse? "Send it back and we won't send you something else because we don't know if the seller has anything else similar."
Feh.
It's a bloody shelf, and one that doesn't mind its pickers dropping dead from the heat.
I'm not thinking about rights, but about competition.
If her advance included a non-compete, that could preclude her from publishing anything until the work related to the advance was complete and through its initial sales cycle. That'd be a way of making sure she was concentrating on what they were paying her for, and to avoid diluting her market and reducing their revenues. From which she also could profit, by the way, so it's not all that draconian.
Yeah, that's as far as I got before being induced to TLDR and post.
The redundancy in the English language, while possibly a form of self-correcting code, often is a source of error itself.
Hence the massive proportion of internet bandwidth given up to grammar flames.
When your error detection system is capable of rat-holing your entire discussion, maybe it's better to rely on reducing the S/N ratio of your lower layers and forego sending the redundant bits...
Except for the web, which was not much more than a hypertext system at the time, computing really hasn't changed. X, Windows, and the Mac were old technology by then. But what's much newer than them now?
Computering has gotten faster, smaller, prettier, and an ungodly bankload cheaper.
But most of us (here) are still writing scripts in text to get useful things done.
Does Siri code in Python? That could be a game-changer.
As others are mentioning, sugar is bad for you. The insulin blast ages your pancreas, whacks-out your cholesterol ratios, and eats at your blood vessel walls.
When they invent an engine that converts fat to energy, they'll have something. Oh wait, they already have.
I haven't read it, but did it not also require her to shop any other project to them first while they're working on this one? A noncompete is usually either very specific, or very specifically very broad, so it should be pretty easy to figure out.
Your problem with step 2 is that Amazon is making enough money selling pots and pans and iPhone protective skins to fail at selling self-published books for a looooooooong time. Longer than your lifetime, times ten.
Amazon is a shelf. You put your shit on the shelf and they show it to the public and handles the cash register and the accounting.
Amazon has zero experience or value to add as a publisher.
Anyone who's read books published by authors without the benefit of a professional team of editors at a publishing house knows that such books have interesting ideas but read like crappy books, or read well but have crappy ideas, or are just crappy through and through.
The rise of Amazon as a publisher should be much less scary to publishers than the rise of another actual publishing house.
Publishers who panic just because authors are moving to Amazon are failing to recognize that in the end they will survive because they add value and Amazon does not, and there will be some segment of the reading public and the writing community who value what they add.
I have a Nexus One. For whatever reason, Adobe Flash has no "move to SD card" option on my phone. Maybe on all Android phones.
Because of that, and because every time they rev it they bloat it another megabyte, it now consumes 14 MB out of the 256 MB available in onboard NVRAM. Which means I'm done installing new things until I either buy a new phone or choose to give up other apps. Which I've already had to do twice to accept Adobe Flash updates. Which means I'm down to apps I really didn't want to delete the other two times, and really really don't want to delete now.
So, I can't add NoScript. Certainly not Firefox and NoScript. Because, well: fuck Adobe.
We're all creative. Most of us don't try harder because there's no value in it, because we're only creative enough to do things someone else has done already. There's a reason starving artists also have a reputation as crazy. It's because they are, spending all their time doing something other than avoiding starving. Of course the irony is that crazy makes interesting stuff, so a lot of them end up creating things that sell for a lot of money. Often after decades of starving. Sometimes well after they're dead. But once they have a hit, they don't go back to doing things for starving wages.
No, we don't have a problem other than that you think you're the building super all of a sudden.
By deliberately altering your key and opening your neighbor's lock, you have committed a crime. It doesn't matter that you were "just trying to help."
Unless there's something in your state's law that says that "just trying to help" is a defense, it's not.
The right thing to do when you noticed the properties of the key was to bring them to the attention of someone who had the authority to test your hypothesis.
Slashdot Mirror
it can potentially help us evolve better robots.
FTFY
The only thing that won't stop is summary writers.
Patent lawyers use weasel-words to get around the fact that they're patenting a concept every time.
How is it private information when you presented it to Google for them to do the legwork on finding 1.8 million matching websites?
They're making it a shared secret between you and Google instead of a broadcast message to every link you choose to click.
They're monetizing it because, well, they are the ones who gave you the free advice. 1.8 million times.
Google tracks you plenty without you signing in.
Since the link you follow is a result of the search, it's got the content baked-in.
Those sites that were spying on search results to decide what to do were trying to be too smart.
Hopefully what this really fixes is the massive disconnect between prices reported by Google Shopping and the price shown on the click-through, which happens so often that it must be the result of futzing with what Google sees and what the user sees for the same search term.
shortly before the north american continent collides with the asian continent
Actually, that happened a long time ago. Notheast Siberia and Northern Japan are on the North American plate. The Bering Strait is fairly recently dry land that has become depressed due to the compressive stress.
Interfaces are key, and the things you can access and control through them are as well. We've got no workable neural-analogue anything. Speech recognition is barely working. I'm looking for barrier reduction on the order of Larry Wall's making the language figure out what type $foo is from its contents and context, instead of my having to declare it as string or array or any of a hundred niggling variants of number.
I don't even do UI programming because just a pixel depth under the hood it's a pain in the ass only an accountant could love. And I save my accounting love for my brokerage spreadsheets.
Amazon isn't a marketplace. In a marketplace you may have to rent a stall, but you are responsible for your own marketing and you deal with the customers. Amazon's reseller thing is much less personable than that. They don't even check that the thing in the bin in the warehouse is the thing they display in the box on your screen. And your recourse? "Send it back and we won't send you something else because we don't know if the seller has anything else similar."
Feh.
It's a bloody shelf, and one that doesn't mind its pickers dropping dead from the heat.
I'm not thinking about rights, but about competition.
If her advance included a non-compete, that could preclude her from publishing anything until the work related to the advance was complete and through its initial sales cycle. That'd be a way of making sure she was concentrating on what they were paying her for, and to avoid diluting her market and reducing their revenues. From which she also could profit, by the way, so it's not all that draconian.
"the redundancy in the English language. "
Yeah, that's as far as I got before being induced to TLDR and post.
The redundancy in the English language, while possibly a form of self-correcting code, often is a source of error itself.
Hence the massive proportion of internet bandwidth given up to grammar flames.
When your error detection system is capable of rat-holing your entire discussion, maybe it's better to rely on reducing the S/N ratio of your lower layers and forego sending the redundant bits...
20 years ago it was 1991.
Except for the web, which was not much more than a hypertext system at the time, computing really hasn't changed. X, Windows, and the Mac were old technology by then. But what's much newer than them now?
Computering has gotten faster, smaller, prettier, and an ungodly bankload cheaper.
But most of us (here) are still writing scripts in text to get useful things done.
Does Siri code in Python? That could be a game-changer.
Not heat. Light.
As others are mentioning, sugar is bad for you. The insulin blast ages your pancreas, whacks-out your cholesterol ratios, and eats at your blood vessel walls.
When they invent an engine that converts fat to energy, they'll have something. Oh wait, they already have.
Seriously considering clobbering all my replies to +1 this.
I haven't read it, but did it not also require her to shop any other project to them first while they're working on this one? A noncompete is usually either very specific, or very specifically very broad, so it should be pretty easy to figure out.
If they were actually smart, they'd offer her $40k + legal expenses + require she write a book about her experience kicking her publisher in the nuts.
Your problem with step 2 is that Amazon is making enough money selling pots and pans and iPhone protective skins to fail at selling self-published books for a looooooooong time. Longer than your lifetime, times ten.
Amazon is a shelf. You put your shit on the shelf and they show it to the public and handles the cash register and the accounting.
Amazon has zero experience or value to add as a publisher.
Anyone who's read books published by authors without the benefit of a professional team of editors at a publishing house knows that such books have interesting ideas but read like crappy books, or read well but have crappy ideas, or are just crappy through and through.
The rise of Amazon as a publisher should be much less scary to publishers than the rise of another actual publishing house.
Publishers who panic just because authors are moving to Amazon are failing to recognize that in the end they will survive because they add value and Amazon does not, and there will be some segment of the reading public and the writing community who value what they add.
What are Apple phone users doing when they browse to flash-based websites again?
I have a Nexus One. For whatever reason, Adobe Flash has no "move to SD card" option on my phone. Maybe on all Android phones.
Because of that, and because every time they rev it they bloat it another megabyte, it now consumes 14 MB out of the 256 MB available in onboard NVRAM. Which means I'm done installing new things until I either buy a new phone or choose to give up other apps. Which I've already had to do twice to accept Adobe Flash updates. Which means I'm down to apps I really didn't want to delete the other two times, and really really don't want to delete now.
So, I can't add NoScript. Certainly not Firefox and NoScript. Because, well: fuck Adobe.
We're all creative. Most of us don't try harder because there's no value in it, because we're only creative enough to do things someone else has done already. There's a reason starving artists also have a reputation as crazy. It's because they are, spending all their time doing something other than avoiding starving. Of course the irony is that crazy makes interesting stuff, so a lot of them end up creating things that sell for a lot of money. Often after decades of starving. Sometimes well after they're dead. But once they have a hit, they don't go back to doing things for starving wages.
No, we don't have a problem other than that you think you're the building super all of a sudden.
By deliberately altering your key and opening your neighbor's lock, you have committed a crime. It doesn't matter that you were "just trying to help."
Unless there's something in your state's law that says that "just trying to help" is a defense, it's not.
The right thing to do when you noticed the properties of the key was to bring them to the attention of someone who had the authority to test your hypothesis.
Are you claiming the lawyers could see that from 10 feet away, but told the judge they couldn't?
If they can be discerned at 10 feet, then the judge has no point other than that the lawyers haven't examined them for differences before.
Without the patent system, there'd be fewer creative people. Some of the best are only in it for the money after their first hit.