This service shows how effectively promoting your service can really make a difference. While Mailinator has been around for a long time, somehow this 10minutemail has managed to get lots of exposure. I wonder did they really get all these mentions around the net just organically, or was there heavy promotion involved? If the success came organically, perhaps it's because 10minutemail is easier to understand. Just from the domain name it's easy to guess what the service is for.
Physicist Stephen Hawking crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Hawking's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Professor Hawking finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Annie forces Hawking to spend his days examining her black hole, confined to his wheelchair.
And there are some interesting contenders out there. Google tends to forget that there are people living outside the US, UK and China. I'm sure they are getting there, but while they linger there are others moving into attack positions. The local ones mentioned before are eating away their user share, since they can take into account location & language specific things that Google may be ignoring while pursuing it's grand world domination plan. In some languages a simple word by word matching scheme may not be enough and conjugation needs to be considered as well. Google has also upset some folks with the China censorship thingy and wanting to move all the users' data on their centralized servers, in general displaying the sort of arrogant behavior that slowly makes people want to see them fail.
Perhaps the most interesting engine to flock to would be http://www.majestic12.co.uk/, a seti@home style distributed indexing system. Sure they're not to Google's index size yet, but they are getting there, faster and faster... and the fairness of their ranking algorithms are open to view and discuss -- perhaps with time such closed algorithms could be viewed with as much dislike as Microsoft's closed OS sources. I wonder if Stallman is using it.
I am not a Google hater myself, personally I feel their search engine is adequate for my needs and their goal of organizing the world's information a very appealing one (although so broad that they might as well have said "we'll do what we please"). All I am saying is that it would not be unthinkable that the public opinion might slowly change, not favorably for them.
GIMP is cool, a bit unixy but for a novice it accomplishes much the same as more expensive programs. The thing I'm most missing on my desktop is Irfanview. How to move hundreds of pics from digicam to the computer, crop and rename? GIMP is very unsuitable for this task. Heard it's possible to get Irfanview to run on WINE, though, but a native solution would always be nicer.
How about any games / video drivers that would display the view for both eyes on it's own monitor? That way you could play 3D games without any glasses or helmet, simply by focusing so that the two images overlap. An 8-hour session of WoW on this setup might seriously screw up your eyes though;)
I wrote about this a while back, warning community sites about it. That was before the MySpace chaos. Formkeys help as a basic precaution, although they may also be read and passed on by ajax techniques.
Short history of web design: 95 What web? 95-98 I love the blink tag! 99-04 Numedia stripes and pics of successful corporate people smiling 05- Rounded corners, pastel gradients.
I want to confirm that what the parent is saying IS really possible. I've made a small test script which spied on people's mouse movements and it freaked some people out. With XMLHttpRequest it is difficult to notice that any communications are taking place. It's like the secret e-band transmitter in laforge's visor:)
The Perific mouse looked quite cool as it can be used both as a trackball AND a mouse, and also attached to your hand while you type. I feel that even an even better way to save space is one of those touchpads used on laptops.
Quite interesting what kind of patents they have for example "US05224756 Integrated child seat for vehicle". I bet James Bond never had that one! Full list of patents: http://cryptome.org/nsa-patents.htm
Of the current latest 6 slashdot posts, 3 are about Google. I suggest a new simpler way of categorizing entries -- Google-related and non-Google-related.
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This service shows how effectively promoting your service can really make a difference. While Mailinator has been around for a long time, somehow this 10minutemail has managed to get lots of exposure. I wonder did they really get all these mentions around the net just organically, or was there heavy promotion involved? If the success came organically, perhaps it's because 10minutemail is easier to understand. Just from the domain name it's easy to guess what the service is for.
Physicist Stephen Hawking crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Hawking's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Professor Hawking finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Annie forces Hawking to spend his days examining her black hole, confined to his wheelchair.
Didn't allow me to use my name "Bemmu" as my username (6 char minimum). Forced me to choose a state, even though I'm not in the US.
And there are some interesting contenders out there. Google tends to forget that there are people living outside the US, UK and China. I'm sure they are getting there, but while they linger there are others moving into attack positions. The local ones mentioned before are eating away their user share, since they can take into account location & language specific things that Google may be ignoring while pursuing it's grand world domination plan. In some languages a simple word by word matching scheme may not be enough and conjugation needs to be considered as well. Google has also upset some folks with the China censorship thingy and wanting to move all the users' data on their centralized servers, in general displaying the sort of arrogant behavior that slowly makes people want to see them fail.
Perhaps the most interesting engine to flock to would be http://www.majestic12.co.uk/, a seti@home style distributed indexing system. Sure they're not to Google's index size yet, but they are getting there, faster and faster... and the fairness of their ranking algorithms are open to view and discuss -- perhaps with time such closed algorithms could be viewed with as much dislike as Microsoft's closed OS sources. I wonder if Stallman is using it.
I am not a Google hater myself, personally I feel their search engine is adequate for my needs and their goal of organizing the world's information a very appealing one (although so broad that they might as well have said "we'll do what we please"). All I am saying is that it would not be unthinkable that the public opinion might slowly change, not favorably for them.
That's my strategy too, I search on Google first and if that fails I try MSN search.
So far, I have never tried MSN search.
This is nothing compared to free robot sex from sexbot 2.0.
Step 1: Insert Knoppix CD and boot
Step 2: ???
Step 3: GIMP!
GIMP is cool, a bit unixy but for a novice it accomplishes much the same as more expensive programs. The thing I'm most missing on my desktop is Irfanview. How to move hundreds of pics from digicam to the computer, crop and rename? GIMP is very unsuitable for this task. Heard it's possible to get Irfanview to run on WINE, though, but a native solution would always be nicer.
They wrote a program to control the electron microscope. What, was it before just taking random shots or something?
How about any games / video drivers that would display the view for both eyes on it's own monitor? That way you could play 3D games without any glasses or helmet, simply by focusing so that the two images overlap. An 8-hour session of WoW on this setup might seriously screw up your eyes though ;)
I wrote about this a while back, warning community sites about it. That was before the MySpace chaos. Formkeys help as a basic precaution, although they may also be read and passed on by ajax techniques.
Because.
You forgot the gradients.
Short history of web design:
95 What web?
95-98 I love the blink tag!
99-04 Numedia stripes and pics of successful corporate people smiling
05- Rounded corners, pastel gradients.
I'm sure I missed lots.
I heard there was enough energy in one act of boinking to send a broadcast to Alpha Centauri and back.
I want to confirm that what the parent is saying IS really possible. I've made a small test script which spied on people's mouse movements and it freaked some people out. With XMLHttpRequest it is difficult to notice that any communications are taking place. It's like the secret e-band transmitter in laforge's visor :)
But can it be fondled for hours without nasty side-effects?
The Perific mouse looked quite cool as it can be used both as a trackball AND a mouse, and also attached to your hand while you type. I feel that even an even better way to save space is one of those touchpads used on laptops.
Quite interesting what kind of patents they have for example "US05224756 Integrated child seat for vehicle". I bet James Bond never had that one! Full list of patents: http://cryptome.org/nsa-patents.htm
No plans for Civilization on a portable machine? So what is this: http://ngage.ign.com/articles/637/637897p1.html
But after that, the domain is mine!
Of the current latest 6 slashdot posts, 3 are about Google. I suggest a new simpler way of categorizing entries -- Google-related and non-Google-related.
I would like a remote control for dogs so I wouldn't have to bother walking them every morning. Or more like autopilot.
Contacts are everything. By helping universities, Google might get new brains to join their borg cube later on.
> Many people in the U.S. would hardly notice if other countries started dropping off the internet
Who cares as long as irc-galleria.net works!
Tip: "cat /dev/udder > /dev/container"