I was thinking the exact same thing. After the search term is submitted, the book excerpt is displayed. There's definitely a way to abuse the system (by grabbing the first/last few words of the excerpt and then using those words as the search term - wash rinse repeat). There must be a way to stop that
Actually, I think this search facility is excellent. I always wished that I had a full text search on my books/newspapers/magazines. I always remember a phrase and its context, but never where it came from. The next step is for Amazon to give me an electronic copy of the book I just purchased, so I can do my full text search... and then I wake up.
If I had received this in my Inbox, I probably would have ignored it. It's interesting that I'm conditioned (brainwashed?) to ignore this stuff when it's in an email, but when I read it on/. I take it seriously.
"If someone is the best teacher in a country at a particular grade or on a particular subject, their instruction and explanations deserve to be videotaped."
What makes the best teachers the best is because they can respond to my questions. Most of the time, they only need to reword some sentences to turn the light on. With this technology, I cannot ask questions, and therefore, not getting the 'best' from the best.
"They deserve to be compensated for their excellence. And the resulting video ought to be made available to the public for free..."
How are they being compensated?
Good idea though, but like everything, it has limitations.
Because the greater majority of consumers are merely herded into a technology. Unfortunately, marketing plays a bigger role on our choices than technical merit. It's not so bad that most of us use the same technology. It's only bad when THAT company stifles competition (which is important) using anti-competitive tactics (which is illegal).
Personally, I don't trust M$ enough (surprise?) to use it for what they are proposing.
This is a step in the right direction. Apache made a stance and stood their ground. Sun gets sick of everyone's complaints - so they listen (plus I wouldn't mess with Apache).
Now that Sun-Apache is better (not perfect), can Sun PLEASE solve the issue with JBoss. They are not as big as Apache, yet, but the certification of an open source implementation of J2EE is very important.
It is not over yet, I think this is very promising, but until Sun 'really' decides where they stand on OSS, Java will continue to get hurt.
I agree, the guys in Canberra need to pull the finger out.
I think another problem that needs to be identified is how to get the power to the masses since it's 1km high and it's gonna be an eye sore.
I think if power can be delivered efficiently to the people that use it, then we can make the red outback look like a porcupine and have enuf power for everyone (since there's only 20 million aussies).
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I'm sure this has been posted before.
Honestly, it's getting worse here.
I was thinking the exact same thing. After the search term is submitted, the book excerpt is displayed. There's definitely a way to abuse the system (by grabbing the first/last few words of the excerpt and then using those words as the search term - wash rinse repeat). There must be a way to stop that
Actually, I think this search facility is excellent. I always wished that I had a full text search on my books/newspapers/magazines. I always remember a phrase and its context, but never where it came from. The next step is for Amazon to give me an electronic copy of the book I just purchased, so I can do my full text search... and then I wake up.
If I had received this in my Inbox, I probably would have ignored it. It's interesting that I'm conditioned (brainwashed?) to ignore this stuff when it's in an email, but when I read it on /. I take it seriously.
you must be new here.
and then, I thought, "this kind of obvious trolling only comes around April".
A little bit early jamie (all the pun intended).
Next thing you know, Google will get banned because of its cache =)
Taco says, "Yeah, I thought the 'news for nerds' stuff is too old. I'm thinking 'Geeks Inside'.".
omg april fools! (that's all I can say).
omg! april fools!
If this is the most widely used benchmark, it sounds like a big deal to me.
If someone says that they are independent, and they are not, then this is a big deal.
Even if this is something that is expected because it is 'an industry standard', it doesn't make it right.
Let's make a big deal out of this so that people that don't have the same expectations do not fall for these bs results.
I wanna know how!!
Pretty soon the army will be able to make ninja turtles that live in the sewers, and eat pizza.
... but, ...but who else will protect us from the evil Shredder?
Or imagine a real life donkey kong game?
rspc who?
aaaaaaahh...
I quite like getting Cindy's email.
Makes me feel good.
It's pretty much the most interesting thing that happens in my day.
hmmm.. I think I need a new job.
"If someone is the best teacher in a country at a particular grade or on a particular subject, their instruction and explanations deserve to be videotaped."
What makes the best teachers the best is because they can respond to my questions. Most of the time, they only need to reword some sentences to turn the light on. With this technology, I cannot ask questions, and therefore, not getting the 'best' from the best.
"They deserve to be compensated for their excellence. And the resulting video ought to be made available to the public for free..."
How are they being compensated?
Good idea though, but like everything, it has limitations.
Chicoy#13
Because the greater majority of consumers are merely herded into a technology. Unfortunately, marketing plays a bigger role on our choices than technical merit. It's not so bad that most of us use the same technology. It's only bad when THAT company stifles competition (which is important) using anti-competitive tactics (which is illegal).
Personally, I don't trust M$ enough (surprise?) to use it for what they are proposing.
This is a step in the right direction. Apache made a stance and stood their ground. Sun gets sick of everyone's complaints - so they listen (plus I wouldn't mess with Apache).
Now that Sun-Apache is better (not perfect), can Sun PLEASE solve the issue with JBoss. They are not as big as Apache, yet, but the certification of an open source implementation of J2EE is very important.
It is not over yet, I think this is very promising, but until Sun 'really' decides where they stand on OSS, Java will continue to get hurt.
I agree, the guys in Canberra need to pull the finger out.
I think another problem that needs to be identified is how to get the power to the masses since it's 1km high and it's gonna be an eye sore.
I think if power can be delivered efficiently to the people that use it, then we can make the red outback look like a porcupine and have enuf power for everyone (since there's only 20 million aussies).