It's not clear to me that Google uses previous searches to do the "Did you mean to search for?" thing. You can also do fuzzy matching and if you get more results from a fuzzy match than the non-fuzzy one, that's when you ask the question.
If Google's lawyers were smart, they would have never admitted to having the information:
Govt: Give us your search data.
Google: No.
If all Google sais was "No," then they never said they had any data to give. They could be merely saying "No" as a matter of principle. Prove otherwise.
If the government wins, Google should destroy their records akin to the way librarians are destroying theirs. The government can't get what you don't have.
This is a useful way of doing it. No more being bombarded by hundreds ads for things you don't want or need. Now you can search for the things you're looking for and avoid having to sit through the same repititious crap.
So this is for only for people who don't know how to use Google? I can find things I'm looking for a lot faster using Google (via a keyboard) than Tivo's remote control.
I have too many good recordings in my collection to EVER have my 'entire music collection' on some little shiny device I bought last week. Those big boxes of vinyl albums aren't in an easily convertable digital format, and never will be. Let's not even get INTO the matter of all the acetate 78 RPM records.
And how often do you actually listen to all your vinyl? If there are albums you haven't listened to in quite a while, then they ought not even to count as part of your music collection. They're just gathering dust in some box.
We're talking about portable MP3 players. Unless you carry around a turntable with you, mentioning your boxes of vinyl is comparing apples to oranges at best.
People who think they need to carry around their 'entire music collection' are being pretty anal. Build a 'playlist,' stuff it in your player, and go out and enjoy listening to it. The only people who need to carry their entire music collection with them at all times are the homeless.
Only in your limited experience. I personally don't feel like syncing my iPod to my computer every time I want to change my music line-up. At any given time, I may be in the mood to listen to something else.
In my case, having my entire collection is even better since the only place I use my iPod is in my car (connected to my Alpine head unit via an adapter). On a long drive, it's nice to have my entire collection to choose from.
Just because you don't want or understand why somebody would want their entire collection doesn't mean it's not a valid thing to want. Your understanding is irrelevant.
And a volcanic vent could easily be the coolest and most hospitable location on the surface of Venus, particularly if the volcano is venting some water.
I'm pretty sure that liquid water is impossible on a planet whose temperature is hot enough to melt lead. Water vapor isn't very useful for life. Aside from that, the atmospheric pressure, not to mention the sulfur/acidic environment, is quite inhospitable to life. An organic molecule would fall to pieces under such conditions.
I mean for goodness sakes, its a FSKING THEORY (both of them). Now, the good thing about Darwinism is that there is alot of evidence to suppor that theory.
First, "Darwinism" is an imprecise label. Darwin discovered evolution (a fact). As a possible explanation of how evolution (the fact) works, Darwin also proposed natural selection (a theory). Natural selection isn't the only theory that attempts to explain evolution: punctuated equilibrium is another.
This is precisely analogous to gravity (the fact) and Newton's mechanics (the theory). Newton's theory has since been replaced by Einstein's general relativity (another theory), but at no time did gravity (a fact) stop being true.
Intelligent design isn't a theory since it (a) makes no predictions, (b) can never be tested, and therefore (c) can never be falsified. By not being a legitimate theory, it has no place in a classroom, especially a science classroom, and most especially in a country where the government supposedly has a seperation of church and state.
If you want your kids to be exposed to religious ideas, send them to Sunday school.
By "their hardware" I meant "the hardware sold by them" not necessarily that they manufacture all the hardware sold by them. Indeed, Apple doesn't manufacture any video cards. They buy the cards from either NVidia or ATI. They also test OS X against those cards that they sell.
If you buy some other video card and it just so happens to work, good for you; but Apple doesn't guarantee that OS X will work with some other video card.
The day Apple decides to put OS X onto a DVD and let you install it on your whitebox built computer...
For the millionth time, this will never happen. Aside from the fact that Apple is a hardware company and the $99 price of OS X is enormously subsidized by the sales of hardware, OS X isn't (and never will be) developed for and tested on the myriad of PC boxes having various motherboards, video cards, sound cards, etc.
One of the reasons OS X works so well is because Apple knows exactly what hardware it will run on -- their own. Apple doesn't want to deal with the nightmare of having to support OS X on a generic PC box. Besides, what kind of support do you expect for $99? Do you really expect that a Mac Genius at an Apple Store is going to spend time diagnosing OS X on your PC?
The cost of entry to use a *nice* Apple is just too damned high
Not really if you compare it to a comparable PC. That aside, apparently Apple doesn't care that some people can't afford their computers just like BMW doesn't care that some people can't afford their cars. Yet you don't hear people bitching about the price of BMWs. A Mac is simply better (not to mention more stylish) hardware that "just works" with a killer OS. Better things tend to cost more. Get used to it.
Macro-evolution is, as you point out, a theroy [sic]
This is where everybody, even those who believe in evolution, get it wrong. Evolution is not a theory. It's a fact. Natural Selection is one theory to explain how evolution (the fact) works. Punctuated Equilibrium is another.
This is analagous to gravity. Newtonian Mechanics was one theory to explain gravity (the fact). It was eventually displaced by the General Theory of Relativity, but gravity never for a moment stopped being a fact.
Anything running in 16MB will run like a snail. I'm not running Linux (not Lunix) on a Commodore 64. Again, I'm running screen just fine. I couldn't care less whether you believe it.
If I'm launching a download overnight, I don't care how much CPU or memory is being used since I'm obviously not using the computer for anything else (I'm asleep).
Anyway, I'm running screen just fine on my Linux box with 128KB RAM. You can continue to use your stone knives and bear skins if you want.
Actually Word for the Mac has had PDF support for years.
I don't think it has/had anything to do with Word for the Mac. Mac OS before OS X had PostScript support from any application for years. But it was most likely PostScript support back then, not PDF directly, that you're thinking of.
It must be a case of YMMV because I've owned at least 3 PalmOS devices, upgraded Macs at least 3 times, and upgraded OSs (Mac OS 9.x to Mac OS X 10.4) since I got my first PalmOS device and it always worked (and still works) just fine.
I never said it would. I'm not talking about the case where modified versions are distributed. The original quote from TFA said nothing about distribution.
You're still not getting it. The moment the employee touches a single line of code, it becomes a non-free version until he publishes his change back to the 'net. The fact that he needs his company's permission to do so is irrelevant to that sole point.
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It would be like a salesman saying "Think sleek" when describing a sportscar.
It's not clear to me that Google uses previous searches to do the "Did you mean to search for?" thing. You can also do fuzzy matching and if you get more results from a fuzzy match than the non-fuzzy one, that's when you ask the question.
Govt: Give us your search data.
Google: No.
If all Google sais was "No," then they never said they had any data to give. They could be merely saying "No" as a matter of principle. Prove otherwise.
If the government wins, Google should destroy their records akin to the way librarians are destroying theirs. The government can't get what you don't have.
We're talking about portable MP3 players. Unless you carry around a turntable with you, mentioning your boxes of vinyl is comparing apples to oranges at best.
In my case, having my entire collection is even better since the only place I use my iPod is in my car (connected to my Alpine head unit via an adapter). On a long drive, it's nice to have my entire collection to choose from.
Just because you don't want or understand why somebody would want their entire collection doesn't mean it's not a valid thing to want. Your understanding is irrelevant.
This is precisely analogous to gravity (the fact) and Newton's mechanics (the theory). Newton's theory has since been replaced by Einstein's general relativity (another theory), but at no time did gravity (a fact) stop being true.
Intelligent design isn't a theory since it (a) makes no predictions, (b) can never be tested, and therefore (c) can never be falsified. By not being a legitimate theory, it has no place in a classroom, especially a science classroom, and most especially in a country where the government supposedly has a seperation of church and state.
If you want your kids to be exposed to religious ideas, send them to Sunday school.
Except I never stated such things.
If you buy some other video card and it just so happens to work, good for you; but Apple doesn't guarantee that OS X will work with some other video card.
One of the reasons OS X works so well is because Apple knows exactly what hardware it will run on -- their own. Apple doesn't want to deal with the nightmare of having to support OS X on a generic PC box. Besides, what kind of support do you expect for $99? Do you really expect that a Mac Genius at an Apple Store is going to spend time diagnosing OS X on your PC?
Not really if you compare it to a comparable PC. That aside, apparently Apple doesn't care that some people can't afford their computers just like BMW doesn't care that some people can't afford their cars. Yet you don't hear people bitching about the price of BMWs. A Mac is simply better (not to mention more stylish) hardware that "just works" with a killer OS. Better things tend to cost more. Get used to it.This is analagous to gravity. Newtonian Mechanics was one theory to explain gravity (the fact). It was eventually displaced by the General Theory of Relativity, but gravity never for a moment stopped being a fact.
Anything running in 16MB will run like a snail. I'm not running Linux (not Lunix) on a Commodore 64. Again, I'm running screen just fine. I couldn't care less whether you believe it.
Anyway, I'm running screen just fine on my Linux box with 128KB RAM. You can continue to use your stone knives and bear skins if you want.
Multiple multiplexed ttys that stay running even after disconnect and you can reattach to them later.
And how is this different from ordering from a mail-order catalog from a company that's not in the same state either you or the gift recipient is in?
We're just talking past each other. You're still not getting it. I give up.
I never said it would. I'm not talking about the case where modified versions are distributed. The original quote from TFA said nothing about distribution.
You're still not getting it. The moment the employee touches a single line of code, it becomes a non-free version until he publishes his change back to the 'net. The fact that he needs his company's permission to do so is irrelevant to that sole point.
I wans't expecting anything. I have no interest in it whatsoever.