Google's search engine falls short in other ways, too. They think my employer is still at the same office it was at three years ago, for example, because all the copycat linkfarm sites they index say so.
At 11:27 AM EST this morning, 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF wrote:
"Google is well known for their clean Web design, using open standards."
The first part of that sentence makes sense; the second part does not. I responded to the notion that Google uses "open standards" with a remark that Google's web site does not adhere to any published standard of which I'm aware. I understand and agree with the notion that standards for standards' sake is a stupid pursuit, but one should not credit Google with an achievement they have not made. That's all my response was intended to say.
Yes, I'm sure Google with its $800 trillion market cap has trouble paying the bandwidth bills.
And you are supposed to make your code validate because <rant style="child" whininess="100"> the standards are STANDARDS and you are expected to comply with them!!!!</rant>
The World Series isn't named after a newspaper either. Blame 19th-century sportswriters for their overly-grandiose statements, then watch the World Baseball Classic final tonight to know whether Cuba or Japan is truly the world's best baseball power.
Beaten at a game we invented*. Man, now I know how England feels.
* If the true inventors of baseball wanted to play, England would have sent over a team of schoolgirls to play rounders. They didn't.
Adult Swim tried airing a Seth Green show called "Robot Chicken" that is nothing but "concentrated bits of funny" -- little pop culture vignettes between 2 and 60 seconds in length. I didn't like it, but I also don't like "Family Guy's" use of the technique, so I guess I'm not mature enough to handle either show.
Except the new season of Family Guy is unwatchable trash. I liked the earlier seasons, but now we just get 22 minutes of "hey, remember that old TV show? here's a skit spoofing it for no reason!" every week. Apparently Seth Macfarlane wasn't content to do that just once, so he also forced Fox to pick up the equally horrid American Dad as part of the most skewed contract ever.
A Big Piece (Ball?) of Garbage in season 1 (litter from the 20th century will destroy the earth), and Crimes of the Hot (Al Gore wants us all to know that robots are emitting too much greenhouse gas, which will destroy the earth) in season 4. On the DVD commentary tracks, the writers explained that they wanted to spread a positive message about good environmental stewardship.
No. I love Futurama but I hated the episodes when the show got all preachy about environmentalism. If the show became a mouthpiece for nerd political activism, I'd never watch it again.
iTunes plays everything QuickTime plays -- no more, no less. You can get plugins for Ogg Vorbis and DivX video, but I don't think there's one for tracker files like mods.
OK so there's an enemy, we'll call it 100,000. Then you have to take out your weapon, which I'll call 2,754, and attack the enemy!
The enemy is now called 97,246. Quick!! Use the magic spell of 22,189!
The enemy's down to 75,057. Good job! Can you use your bag of tricks to get him down to 0? Tune in to the next episode of Final Fantasy XII to find out!
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Kristopher Tate: One day my apartment was infested with koala bears. It was the cutest infestation ever. Whenever I turned on the light, koala bears scattered... all right...
To target young people with local ads, you're better off buying ad space on craigslist* or better yet, MySpace. (Remember when you had to pay marketing firms for demographic information? Now your customers can tell you directly how old they are, where they live, and what stuff they buy!)
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This is also... competition! Verizon's responding to the fact that for the same price* as its home DSL service, cable companies offer significantly faster service.
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That's probably because Google thinks its own index knows more about companies than folks like Hoovers do. Most search results for "wipro vivek paul" suggest that Paul is still with the company.
Google's search engine falls short in other ways, too. They think my employer is still at the same office it was at three years ago, for example, because all the copycat linkfarm sites they index say so.
Curiously, although Google Maps is JavaScript, Google Finance uses Flash for its charting. How very YahooBetaMappy of them.
At 11:27 AM EST this morning, 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF wrote:
"Google is well known for their clean Web design, using open standards."
The first part of that sentence makes sense; the second part does not. I responded to the notion that Google uses "open standards" with a remark that Google's web site does not adhere to any published standard of which I'm aware. I understand and agree with the notion that standards for standards' sake is a stupid pursuit, but one should not credit Google with an achievement they have not made. That's all my response was intended to say.
Yes, I'm sure Google with its $800 trillion market cap has trouble paying the bandwidth bills.
And you are supposed to make your code validate because <rant style="child" whininess="100"> the standards are STANDARDS and you are expected to comply with them!!!!</rant>
Which standards are you talking about? Google doesn't develop W3C-valid pages. Who do you think they are -- Microsoft?
The World Series isn't named after a newspaper either. Blame 19th-century sportswriters for their overly-grandiose statements, then watch the World Baseball Classic final tonight to know whether Cuba or Japan is truly the world's best baseball power.
Beaten at a game we invented*. Man, now I know how England feels.
* If the true inventors of baseball wanted to play, England would have sent over a team of schoolgirls to play rounders. They didn't.
Also "The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz," season 3 (Bender thinks he is a penguin and we all learn a lot about why we must save the penguins).
Adult Swim tried airing a Seth Green show called "Robot Chicken" that is nothing but "concentrated bits of funny" -- little pop culture vignettes between 2 and 60 seconds in length. I didn't like it, but I also don't like "Family Guy's" use of the technique, so I guess I'm not mature enough to handle either show.
Except the new season of Family Guy is unwatchable trash. I liked the earlier seasons, but now we just get 22 minutes of "hey, remember that old TV show? here's a skit spoofing it for no reason!" every week. Apparently Seth Macfarlane wasn't content to do that just once, so he also forced Fox to pick up the equally horrid American Dad as part of the most skewed contract ever.
I like the quantum physics and math jokes and the wiseass robot. I don't get either of those things on NASCAR or Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
A Big Piece (Ball?) of Garbage in season 1 (litter from the 20th century will destroy the earth), and Crimes of the Hot (Al Gore wants us all to know that robots are emitting too much greenhouse gas, which will destroy the earth) in season 4. On the DVD commentary tracks, the writers explained that they wanted to spread a positive message about good environmental stewardship.
No. I love Futurama but I hated the episodes when the show got all preachy about environmentalism. If the show became a mouthpiece for nerd political activism, I'd never watch it again.
iTunes plays everything QuickTime plays -- no more, no less. You can get plugins for Ogg Vorbis and DivX video, but I don't think there's one for tracker files like mods.
OK so there's an enemy, we'll call it 100,000. Then you have to take out your weapon, which I'll call 2,754, and attack the enemy!
The enemy is now called 97,246. Quick!! Use the magic spell of 22,189!
The enemy's down to 75,057. Good job! Can you use your bag of tricks to get him down to 0? Tune in to the next episode of Final Fantasy XII to find out!
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Question: What motivated you to create zooomr?
Kristopher Tate: One day my apartment was infested with koala bears. It was the cutest infestation ever. Whenever I turned on the light, koala bears scattered... all right...
Few "newspaper companies" are purely in the newspaper business. For years they've branched out with radio stations, TV stations, web sites, direct mailing, telemarketing, and any other medium that will get them sales and exposure. Example: The New York Times Company owns 19 newspapers, 9 TV stations, a significant stake in the Boston Red Sox, and more.
To target young people with local ads, you're better off buying ad space on craigslist* or better yet, MySpace. (Remember when you had to pay marketing firms for demographic information? Now your customers can tell you directly how old they are, where they live, and what stuff they buy!)
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Should you get tired of watching us all die, I recommend a lighthearted video game.
That's a movie? I thought it was a Chrysler 300C commercial.
American units, please
I think you need a PSp, not to be confused with the PSP.
Unfortunately only one was made, and you have to contend with a disc spinning in midair, but aside from that it looks sweet.
This is also... competition! Verizon's responding to the fact that for the same price* as its home DSL service, cable companies offer significantly faster service.
* Assuming that you subscribe to cable TV as well