"litigious bastards" #1 results:
Yahoo: The SCO Group's official website
Google: Some chintzy site about Google bombing SCO
In fact, site:sco.com does not appear anywhere in Google's 13,700 results for "litigious bastards", which was the whole point of the silly Google bombing.
I'm going to try out Yahoo's new search technology, because I'm tired of every google search I do resulting in the top 50 results all trying to sell me something (usually not even what I searched for). If I was looking to buy something, I'd use Froogle. And increasingly often the top sites are all identical keyword-stuffed pages at different domains-- obviously googlebombed results.
I was using the web when Lycos came out. It blew me away. Then altavista came out, and it blew Lycos away. Then there was an uncertain period, and then Google came out and blew everything else away. Let's set aside our love of Google for a minute, and imagine a search engine that blows Google away. There's no reason why it can't happen. I'm not saying Yahoo! is it; in fact I doubt it. But there's a lot of groupthink here that anything new that's not Google can't be as good or better than Google. There's clearly a lot of room for improvement.
What I think will be really exciting is when eventually the rover drives out of this crater. As cool as the current pictures are, you are only looking a relatively short distance in any direction. Wait until they get over the crest of the crater and you can see for km's and km's... Who knows what that will look like? It could be a whole new revelation as big as either of the two current landings.
From the website, www.clubplumcrazy.com (you might want to turn off sound before you go there):
And guess what - you DON'T NEED TO WEAR A BULLET PROOF VEST... (quoted from Fosters about an event at the competition, 360 nightclub, Saturday Oct 11)... "a gun had been fired on the property"... "He fired one round"... You don't need to worry about gun fights at Plum Crazy! People come to Plum to dance and have fun, not to get involved in attempted first degree assault and gun shootings!
Damn, I'm always seeking out the hot "first degree assault and gun shootings" scene...
Oh, the memories. I did this same exact thing but also generated some int(rnd(1)*16) or some such, then poking the 3 memory locations for the background color, border color, and text color. Really, really obnoxious.
by Golias (176380) on Friday September 12, @03:32PM (#6945874) Personally, I'll stick with my Crown Victoria for now. It [...] has a trunk big enough to easily fit three dead hookers. More, if you chop 'em up and put them in bags.
by Anonymous Canard (594978) on Friday September 12, @04:23PM (#6946844)
Funny you should mention the Crown Victoria, since it is one of two commercially available alternative fuel vehicles. [...] As alternative fuel vehicles go, these are pretty easy to use -- they handle like gasoline engines, are easy to refill (in California) at many PG&E stations in the area, at the cost of about half your trunk space
So you're saying if I get a natural gas Crown Vic, I can only fit one dead hooker in the trunk without chopping up? When will they make an alternative fuel vehicle with no compromises?
I wouldn't read too much into that. That's an image from the national weather service radar on long island. There is always a lot of noise concentrated around the center-- ground clutter and the like. If you look at the current image here you'll see something similar. (Note there is a storm coming through today, that might overwhelm the noise by the time you look at this.) There are frequently big changes in the noise pattern in the radar picture that happen when they adjust the sensitivity of the radar.
Also, the wind on 9/11 and 9/12 was more westerly than your image suggests. The debris and dust was blown over southern long island and out over the atlantic, not up over long island sound and into CT.
Look at the Iowa Electronic Markets, where people bet real money on the outcome of presidential elections and so forth. It has generally been more accurate than any poll. (Last presidential election was a rather unusual case)
The book Blind Man's Bluff also gives a detailed account of how the lost submarine USS Scorpion was located. All the experts could only narrow it down to a 20 mile radius. With no other options, they resorted to taking real money bets from other submarine commanders on the probabilities of different scenarios. Result? The submarine was found within a couple hundred yards from where they guessed.
Can you imagine some Navy officer going to his superiors at the Navy and explaining that we're going to try and find a submarine by having a betting pool on it? It sounds completely insane, and personally I can't believe anyone had the balls to suggest it. But it works. When people have a skin in the game, they tend to give their best, most honest appraisal. If it was up to me, I would require intelligence analyst types to participate in this kind of thing.
Re:Can't beat my filtering
on
I, Spammer
·
· Score: 1
A little OT perhaps, but my problem with these filters is that the false positives (I have had a few), or the potential for false positives, requires me to periodically browse through my spam folder "just to make sure." I can't help but feel when I'm reading the senders & titles that the spammers have still achieved some degree of success-- the titles themselves can be considered (unsolicited) advertising, and there I am reading them.
Of course there are other problems...Filtering at my end, after the message has been composed and bulk-mailed, is inefficient and does nothing to curtail future spam. More generally, I shouldn't have to filter; I shouldn't be receiving spam in the first place. Filtering just sweeps it under the rug, it doesn't address the cause.
The companies that make silicon wafers for semiconductor production start with what is considered "chemically pure" silicon, and purify it some more until it is "electronics grade" silicon. A billet (I forget their technical term for it) of silicon is grown off of a seed crystal in a furnace, in a process that takes about a month. This is then sliced along a crystal axis into wafers which are polished to a rather extraordinary degree.
I don't know how much the raw silicon costs, but I suspect that most of the cost of the wafers comes from this month-long crystal growth and planarization. Good (ie, very flat) 200mm silicon wafers for semiconductor production can cost up to $1000 each, although they are probably much cheaper now due to lack of demand. Many processes also don't require the flattest wafers and so one can get by with wafers that cost a small fraction of that.
People are still playing Tecmo Bowl at college? That's amazing. I remember not studying for exams too numerous to mention because it was my turn at Tecmo. This was on the Genesis back in '94-'96ish, with the Iron City Tecmo league. Maybe there are still some references to us out there on the web- we had the very first Tecmo web site.
We proved conclusively that Tecmo could be NP-Addictive.
The "rawness" of this entertainment is what is so compelling, I think. It is pure brutality waged by machines. If it were people being this brutal with each other, everybody would watch it too if they could (don't deny it). Battlebots to me has all the brutal appeal of, for example, Ultimate Fighting Championship, but without the social complications. Advertisers have no problem with it- in my market, there are always ads for Christian music albums during the show...never understood those demographics.
I also agree that the other Battlebots imitators (and I don't care who "really" was first, Battlebots was the first one anybody knew about) are unwatchably lame.
Although, there are too many hazards in Battlebots. They are too much of a factor in the fights. Too many fights are decided because somebody accidentally drives over a hazard, which is unavoidable because there are so many all over the place. Get rid of the spinners, the pistons, the spikes in the floor, and the lifting panels in the center. They just break up the flow of the action too much. They should just have the hammers and a couple sets of saws, and of course the spike strips on the sides, and let the robots fight. And please, make the hammers and saws sensor operated so that the jackass hammer nazi doesn't get to pick and choose who gets smashed. That's ridiculous.
Re:we all know what a disaster Freon was... try ag
on
Microsoft Freon
·
· Score: 1
It's also interesting to note that, after it was essentially banned in the U.S., Freon was one of the most smuggled substances into the country.
Because, as you noted, the replacement refrigerants were so inadequate in existing refrigeration systems, there was still a great demand for Freon and there existed (I'm sure there still does, to some extent) a black market for Freon. Freon was the second most smuggled substance into the US from Mexico, because the margins on Freon were nearly as good as those for narcotics.
Dangers of early photography
on
World's First Photo
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Many early photographers died of horrible nervous conditions, a result of exposure to toxic chemicals used in Daguerrotype and other early photographic processes.
Ambrotype and tintype, introduced in the 1850's, were faster and the chemicals involved were both cheaper and safer.
because one simple feature: an Accept/Refuse pop-up windows option.
I could do this back when I used Netscape, but I had to disable all javascript and it involved navigating through preferences and deselecting boxes and whatnot. Perhaps Mozilla has this option now, but it runs too slowly on my system.
I had some problems with things like Flash and Quicktime in earlier versions, but they all seem to work fine now. The multiple document interface also saves a ton of real estate on the taskbar. I never thought that it would matter, but once you get used to it you can't stand seeing 6 different tabs of IE/Netscape/whatever.
You sound very confident about that. Perhaps you'd be willing to make a little wager on it? Come up with a fair and equitable way to quantify "In 2 years, nobody will remember the Xbox" and I'll give you 10-1 odds.
Slashdot Mirror
Yahoo: The SCO Group's official website
Google: Some chintzy site about Google bombing SCO
In fact, site:sco.com does not appear anywhere in Google's 13,700 results for "litigious bastards", which was the whole point of the silly Google bombing.
I'm going to try out Yahoo's new search technology, because I'm tired of every google search I do resulting in the top 50 results all trying to sell me something (usually not even what I searched for). If I was looking to buy something, I'd use Froogle. And increasingly often the top sites are all identical keyword-stuffed pages at different domains-- obviously googlebombed results.
I was using the web when Lycos came out. It blew me away. Then altavista came out, and it blew Lycos away. Then there was an uncertain period, and then Google came out and blew everything else away. Let's set aside our love of Google for a minute, and imagine a search engine that blows Google away. There's no reason why it can't happen. I'm not saying Yahoo! is it; in fact I doubt it. But there's a lot of groupthink here that anything new that's not Google can't be as good or better than Google. There's clearly a lot of room for improvement.
I'm rambling. I'll stop now.
What I think will be really exciting is when eventually the rover drives out of this crater. As cool as the current pictures are, you are only looking a relatively short distance in any direction. Wait until they get over the crest of the crater and you can see for km's and km's... Who knows what that will look like? It could be a whole new revelation as big as either of the two current landings.
And guess what - you DON'T NEED TO WEAR A BULLET PROOF VEST... (quoted from Fosters about an event at the competition, 360 nightclub, Saturday Oct 11)... "a gun had been fired on the property" ... "He fired one round" ... You don't need to worry about gun fights at Plum Crazy! People come to Plum to dance and have fun, not to get involved in attempted first degree assault and gun shootings!
Damn, I'm always seeking out the hot "first degree assault and gun shootings" scene...
Personally, I'll stick with my Crown Victoria for now. It [...] has a trunk big enough to easily fit three dead hookers. More, if you chop 'em up and put them in bags.
by Anonymous Canard (594978) on Friday September 12, @04:23PM (#6946844)
Funny you should mention the Crown Victoria, since it is one of two commercially available alternative fuel vehicles. [...] As alternative fuel vehicles go, these are pretty easy to use -- they handle like gasoline engines, are easy to refill (in California) at many PG&E stations in the area, at the cost of about half your trunk space
So you're saying if I get a natural gas Crown Vic, I can only fit one dead hooker in the trunk without chopping up? When will they make an alternative fuel vehicle with no compromises?
Also, the wind on 9/11 and 9/12 was more westerly than your image suggests. The debris and dust was blown over southern long island and out over the atlantic, not up over long island sound and into CT.
Should your coworkers be alarmed?
The book Blind Man's Bluff also gives a detailed account of how the lost submarine USS Scorpion was located. All the experts could only narrow it down to a 20 mile radius. With no other options, they resorted to taking real money bets from other submarine commanders on the probabilities of different scenarios. Result? The submarine was found within a couple hundred yards from where they guessed.
Can you imagine some Navy officer going to his superiors at the Navy and explaining that we're going to try and find a submarine by having a betting pool on it? It sounds completely insane, and personally I can't believe anyone had the balls to suggest it. But it works. When people have a skin in the game, they tend to give their best, most honest appraisal. If it was up to me, I would require intelligence analyst types to participate in this kind of thing.
Of course there are other problems...Filtering at my end, after the message has been composed and bulk-mailed, is inefficient and does nothing to curtail future spam. More generally, I shouldn't have to filter; I shouldn't be receiving spam in the first place. Filtering just sweeps it under the rug, it doesn't address the cause.
I don't know how much the raw silicon costs, but I suspect that most of the cost of the wafers comes from this month-long crystal growth and planarization. Good (ie, very flat) 200mm silicon wafers for semiconductor production can cost up to $1000 each, although they are probably much cheaper now due to lack of demand. Many processes also don't require the flattest wafers and so one can get by with wafers that cost a small fraction of that.
We proved conclusively that Tecmo could be NP-Addictive.
I also agree that the other Battlebots imitators (and I don't care who "really" was first, Battlebots was the first one anybody knew about) are unwatchably lame.
Although, there are too many hazards in Battlebots. They are too much of a factor in the fights. Too many fights are decided because somebody accidentally drives over a hazard, which is unavoidable because there are so many all over the place. Get rid of the spinners, the pistons, the spikes in the floor, and the lifting panels in the center. They just break up the flow of the action too much. They should just have the hammers and a couple sets of saws, and of course the spike strips on the sides, and let the robots fight. And please, make the hammers and saws sensor operated so that the jackass hammer nazi doesn't get to pick and choose who gets smashed. That's ridiculous.
It's also interesting to note that, after it was essentially banned in the U.S., Freon was one of the most smuggled substances into the country.
Because, as you noted, the replacement refrigerants were so inadequate in existing refrigeration systems, there was still a great demand for Freon and there existed (I'm sure there still does, to some extent) a black market for Freon. Freon was the second most smuggled substance into the US from Mexico, because the margins on Freon were nearly as good as those for narcotics.
Many early photographers died of horrible nervous conditions, a result of exposure to toxic chemicals used in Daguerrotype and other early photographic processes. Ambrotype and tintype, introduced in the 1850's, were faster and the chemicals involved were both cheaper and safer.
I could do this back when I used Netscape, but I had to disable all javascript and it involved navigating through preferences and deselecting boxes and whatnot. Perhaps Mozilla has this option now, but it runs too slowly on my system.
I had some problems with things like Flash and Quicktime in earlier versions, but they all seem to work fine now. The multiple document interface also saves a ton of real estate on the taskbar. I never thought that it would matter, but once you get used to it you can't stand seeing 6 different tabs of IE/Netscape/whatever.
You sound very confident about that. Perhaps you'd be willing to make a little wager on it? Come up with a fair and equitable way to quantify "In 2 years, nobody will remember the Xbox" and I'll give you 10-1 odds.
why didn't they quit? Nobody was forcing them to work there.