When is google going to learn that aggregation is not the way of the future? They will eventually become so large their shareholders will be able to turn them into a giant evil machine, much lik current companies.
so whats your solution ?, not allow companies to grow beyond a certain size ?, lets give google the benefit of the doubt until they do start behaving evily.
good question, I am not sure how this prefetching works, I not sure we can count on google knowing about some tiny site showing off the latest silly case mod before the slashdot crowd, then again.
I still find it strange that people will panic about a company that collects some personal information yet they'll cope with the fact that there's a god, somewhere, knowing all...
I don't know if there is a god (I prefer to believe in the provable) but the fact that I can cope with a possible god knowing everything about me doesn't mean I like it. Theres not a hell of a lot we can do about a possible god, google on the other hand...
Incredible the amount of faith people must have in the US justice system to support the death penalty. Has there never been a miscarriage of justice in America ?, have you never got it wrong ?.
Wrong place, wrong time and it could be you facing death at the behest of your soceity (whether you are innocent or not). Thats real faith, I can't say that I am a believer, I don't whether to admire your faith or pity you for it.
I just read it, I don't think its too bad, it takes it all fairly seriously but it doesn't claim that everything john titor says is true, it comments on both believers and sceptics and tries to give both sides.
Sent back in time to retrieve an IBM 5100 ?, I know we are all geeks here but really, how boring.
Isn't randomn just something we can't understand ?. Technically speaking if we had enough infomation nothing would be considered randomn. I guess with encryption you pick something thats pretty damn complex and then hope that your competitors agree with you.
These recent treks that are all about wars and payback (thinly veiled references to the war on terror etc.) are the complete antithesis of what I felt Star Trek was about.
You fundamentally misunderstand star trek. From the beginning of the 60's show it was supposed to have been a commentary on soceity at the time (cold war, racism, hippy peace and love, etc.).
The best example of this is the 6th star trek movie, its an obvious allegory of the end of the cold war. Starting with a klingon energy moon exploding (meant to reseamble chernoble), following through the diplomacy (including the line "only nixon could go to china"), a new bird of prey that can fire torpedos when cloaked (the US/Russia fighter battles) and ending with a traditional (although IMO overplayed) star trek happy clappy ending.
In fact the secret of great sci fi is that is never really about the future, or another universe, or whatever. It's about present day, after all if you couldn't identify anything in it why would you watch it ?. People watched TOS because they found the idea where man had stopped fighting each other and become harmonised inpspiring.
The enterprise writers shouldn't stray away from social commentary but they should learn how to do it right.
I said no such thing. "Bias" doesn't imply a deliberate attempt to shape public opinion. An unbiased news source is one that doesn't slant coverage in any direction, even if it conforms to public opinion.
To be honest they could have done without any guide sequences at all, just referenced it every now and again by getting a character to say "according to the guide...".
The TV series did the guide sections right, if you aren't going to give them enough time don't do them at all.
Yeah I agree with the registers review. Surprisingly as an english man my favourite actor in the film was sam rockwell, his incarnation of zaphod is mesmerizing to watch, I would definitley watch a sequel if he were in it again.
We are talking about servers here. You don't need to paint go faster stripes on server products because faster, more efficient servers are still in demand.
I think the idea is that sites linked from a trusted site will be considered better than a site linked to from a site that isn't trusted.
Say for example the BBC news site is trusted by google (no jokes please) and then the BBC links to a blog, that blog will be returned higher in the mix of search results because it has a relationship with a trusted site.
I don't think trustrank will always return certain sites first just because they themselves are trusted, that would be censorship and it would make the google search less accurate.
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Whats does google have to gain by telling everyone that you like porn ?, if your really that worried don't use it.
No.
When is google going to learn that aggregation is not the way of the future? They will eventually become so large their shareholders will be able to turn them into a giant evil machine, much lik current companies.
so whats your solution ?, not allow companies to grow beyond a certain size ?, lets give google the benefit of the doubt until they do start behaving evily.
good question, I am not sure how this prefetching works, I not sure we can count on google knowing about some tiny site showing off the latest silly case mod before the slashdot crowd, then again.
I still find it strange that people will panic about a company that collects some personal information yet they'll cope with the fact that there's a god, somewhere, knowing all...
I don't know if there is a god (I prefer to believe in the provable) but the fact that I can cope with a possible god knowing everything about me doesn't mean I like it. Theres not a hell of a lot we can do about a possible god, google on the other hand...
Incredible the amount of faith people must have in the US justice system to support the death penalty. Has there never been a miscarriage of justice in America ?, have you never got it wrong ?.
Wrong place, wrong time and it could be you facing death at the behest of your soceity (whether you are innocent or not). Thats real faith, I can't say that I am a believer, I don't whether to admire your faith or pity you for it.
SCO vs IBM ?, is that still going on ?.
Still not as bad as when the SCO story first started, 45 or 5 articles a day about SCO on \.
Take away my \. id if you like but I am staying out of this until its finished (in what 3 or 4 years time ?).
Somebody wake me when its all over.
I just read it, I don't think its too bad, it takes it all fairly seriously but it doesn't claim that everything john titor says is true, it comments on both believers and sceptics and tries to give both sides.
Sent back in time to retrieve an IBM 5100 ?, I know we are all geeks here but really, how boring.
Seriously though, as long as its not your brain then whats the problem ?
Isn't randomn just something we can't understand ?. Technically speaking if we had enough infomation nothing would be considered randomn. I guess with encryption you pick something thats pretty damn complex and then hope that your competitors agree with you.
These recent treks that are all about wars and payback (thinly veiled references to the war on terror etc.) are the complete antithesis of what I felt Star Trek was about.
You fundamentally misunderstand star trek. From the beginning of the 60's show it was supposed to have been a commentary on soceity at the time (cold war, racism, hippy peace and love, etc.).
The best example of this is the 6th star trek movie, its an obvious allegory of the end of the cold war. Starting with a klingon energy moon exploding (meant to reseamble chernoble), following through the diplomacy (including the line "only nixon could go to china"), a new bird of prey that can fire torpedos when cloaked (the US/Russia fighter battles) and ending with a traditional (although IMO overplayed) star trek happy clappy ending.
In fact the secret of great sci fi is that is never really about the future, or another universe, or whatever. It's about present day, after all if you couldn't identify anything in it why would you watch it ?. People watched TOS because they found the idea where man had stopped fighting each other and become harmonised inpspiring.
The enterprise writers shouldn't stray away from social commentary but they should learn how to do it right.
Im in the minority because I liked voyager and thought that it was about as good as DS9, neither of them were as good as TNG though.
I don't think they can cancel re runs, the rights to show the different treks are owned by different channels aren't they ?.
Yeah, but the point is that enterprise is going up against these re runs and *losing*. Cos its a crappy show.
I said no such thing. "Bias" doesn't imply a deliberate attempt to shape public opinion. An unbiased news source is one that doesn't slant coverage in any direction, even if it conforms to public opinion.
Oh I see, a bit like FOX news ?.
To be honest they could have done without any guide sequences at all, just referenced it every now and again by getting a character to say "according to the guide...".
The TV series did the guide sections right, if you aren't going to give them enough time don't do them at all.
thats really cool, wonder if there is one availiable for windows or linux ?
I don't think that is bias. You seem to be suggesting that if it weren't for the BBC the british would love guns just as much as the americans.
In actual fact here reporting was reflecting the fact that your average man on the street in Britain is opposed to gun public ownership.
Yeah I agree with the registers review. Surprisingly as an english man my favourite actor in the film was sam rockwell, his incarnation of zaphod is mesmerizing to watch, I would definitley watch a sequel if he were in it again.
We are talking about servers here. You don't need to paint go faster stripes on server products because faster, more efficient servers are still in demand.
Then lets build a space ship that can orbit Venus? Would we learn more that way than just using telescopes?
Build an orbiter ?, thats a good idea maybe NASA should try that. And they could use radar to map the surface too.
The longest a probe has ever survived on the surface of Venus was about 20 minutes
Incorrect, Venera-9 sent back telemetry for 50 minutes and Venera-10 did so for 45 minutes, as seen here.
Now, lower ranking for sites that can't figure out the difference betwen "its" and "it's" would be worth paying for.
Doesn't "-its" work for google ?.
I think the idea is that sites linked from a trusted site will be considered better than a site linked to from a site that isn't trusted.
Say for example the BBC news site is trusted by google (no jokes please) and then the BBC links to a blog, that blog will be returned higher in the mix of search results because it has a relationship with a trusted site.
I don't think trustrank will always return certain sites first just because they themselves are trusted, that would be censorship and it would make the google search less accurate.
didn't adobe use the DMCA against some russian guy ?
Adobe can't have it both ways.