Google's results have gotten pretty lousy in the last couple of years. Their algorithms worked great 3 years ago. People have learned how to take advantage of the algorithms, and now the results are crap. Try to search for information about something, and you'll get the top 100 matches to sites trying to sell something remotely related to it. If Microsoft can figure out a way to separate informational sites, commerce sites, and opinion sites - and allow you to get what class you want - they can beat Google, at least as far as quality of results.
They will learn from Google, and make a clean and easy to use interface.
They will surely make some typical Microsoft moves leaving every geek in the world thinking "What were they smoking when they designed this?!". They will surely make some typical Microsoft moves leaving every geek thinking "This is evil.". But most users won't have these thoughts.
And it will be the default home page and default search engine for IE7.
Like stocks. The value of the company is based on how much people want it. Major stockholder in company A, supposedly worth 100M, decides he wants to buy a 10M yacht.. He sells 10M in stock, and the stock price plummets.
Lets review: Man buys a boat. "Value" of a company plummets.
The problem isn't Google. The problem isn't traffic on Verizon backbones. The problem is Verizon's end users, i.e. DSL. They're actually using all of the bandwidth they are paying for, instead of the 5% that Verizon banked on them using. Google is a large part of the usage increase, so that is who Verizon will blame. (Oh, and Google has a lot more money than the end users.)
Wasn't there a bit a while ago about a cable company trying to charge the subscriber AND the content provider? The content providers walked, and the cable company dropped the charges. Unfortunately, I can't see anybody walking here.
The bookends create a loop. Split the books to the left of the cd rom drive, pull it out, put a dvd drive in, and push it back together. Mount the dvd drive. Of course, Windows crashes when you do this (just like with Cardbus), but every other OS is okay with it.
Who decides who deserves what? You can save for retirement. But don't work your whole life, not save a penny, and then come to me because you think you _deserve_ a retriement, and think I should pay for it.
Young people begrudge older people stuff because the people who have it now got [some of] it with the young people's money, and the young people aren't going to get any money from the even younger.
"We do not want an art exhibit, we want a web page. With stuff on it. Knowledge."
The problem is that most people who are paying to get a web site made want an art exhibit. They want it to look slick and fancy and professional. Stuff on it is an afterthought.
Print server: If something craps out, and it takes me a couple days to get a replacement parts, nobody is going to have a fit. I use a white box, or salvage whatever we've got. Saves money.
Production database: Something dies. Vendor technician is there in 3 hours with a replacement part, and you're back up in 4 hours.
For random office machines, we use whatever we've got around, or buy something cheap. For production, its all IBM or Sun.
For developer laptops, we use IBM. Prices are high. Specs are low. But they're solid. (I wish I could get Apple Powerbooks, but IBM doesn't have a db2 client for osX or linux on powerpc.)
I found SQL very hard as a beginner. I learned "connect to mydatabase user oyenstikker using lousypassword". Fine. I sounds like English. So I remembered the thoughts and not the syntax. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 12th, and 18th time, I typed "open mydatabase user oyenstikker password lousypassword", "connect mydatabase as oyenstikker with lousypassword", or something like that. If the language is an abstraction, it is easier to remember the syntax.
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but I can't be bothered.
But you can be bothered to post your complaints on slashdot? It doesn't take that long to install another jre.
The writers of the constitution didn't put the second ammendment in so we could hunt deer or shoot tin cans. It is so we can protect ourselves from the government and overthrow it if necessary. It is so we can have guns that we can fight a corrupt army lead by a corrupt government.
--- tangent --- At the time, that meant you could have your flint lock musket and flint lock single shot pistol, and probably better models than the government could afford to supply the army with. Even through the civil war, people could go buy repeating rifles (6-14 rimfire bullets) and six shot black powder revolvers, same thing the infantry had (if they were lucky enough to have repeaters - most had muzzle loading rifles). Sure, they had cannons, and a few breachloading ones at that, but you had a fighting chance.
They didn't forsee one weapon that could kill millions of people at a time. Should I be able to have one? Common sense says no. The Constitution says yes.
How is installing from source into/usr/local any harder in Debian than anywhere else? I've installed plenty of things from source in debian../configure usually tells me what I need to install.
Michael Jackson owns enough of a percentage of whatever controls the Lennon/McCartney catalog. Paul still has a big chunk of it, and does make quite a bit of money. He and Yoko have been buying as much of it as they can for years.
IIRC, which I may not be doing, George's music is under Harrisongs, which is independant of Lennon/McCartney, and Jackson owns nothing of.
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I wish they would take this out of their FAQ:
To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted. . .
They're calling something unethical in all cases with no explanation. Sounds like religious fanatacism to me.
link to the quote:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Rel easeUnderGPLAndNF
Google's results have gotten pretty lousy in the last couple of years. Their algorithms worked great 3 years ago. People have learned how to take advantage of the algorithms, and now the results are crap. Try to search for information about something, and you'll get the top 100 matches to sites trying to sell something remotely related to it. If Microsoft can figure out a way to separate informational sites, commerce sites, and opinion sites - and allow you to get what class you want - they can beat Google, at least as far as quality of results.
They will learn from Google, and make a clean and easy to use interface.
They will surely make some typical Microsoft moves leaving every geek in the world thinking "What were they smoking when they designed this?!". They will surely make some typical Microsoft moves leaving every geek thinking "This is evil.". But most users won't have these thoughts.
And it will be the default home page and default search engine for IE7.
Why is this a big story?
Like stocks. The value of the company is based on how much people want it. Major stockholder in company A, supposedly worth 100M, decides he wants to buy a 10M yacht.. He sells 10M in stock, and the stock price plummets.
Lets review:
Man buys a boat. "Value" of a company plummets.
The problem isn't Google. The problem isn't traffic on Verizon backbones. The problem is Verizon's end users, i.e. DSL. They're actually using all of the bandwidth they are paying for, instead of the 5% that Verizon banked on them using. Google is a large part of the usage increase, so that is who Verizon will blame. (Oh, and Google has a lot more money than the end users.)
"The procedure entry point of _wtof could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll"
Did they fix the 3 pixel shift bug?
Did they fix position:fixed?
Did they fix float messing up other blocks?
(I can't try it, as I use Windows 2000 Server.)
tried on 2000 server. "Wrong architecture (32/64bits)". Thats helpful.
But the developer's bosses will tell them to use it or get fired.
People won't switch. They'll buy a Dell and use whatever came with it.
Wasn't there a bit a while ago about a cable company trying to charge the subscriber AND the content provider? The content providers walked, and the cable company dropped the charges. Unfortunately, I can't see anybody walking here.
The bookends create a loop. Split the books to the left of the cd rom drive, pull it out, put a dvd drive in, and push it back together. Mount the dvd drive. Of course, Windows crashes when you do this (just like with Cardbus), but every other OS is okay with it.
deserve.
deserve.
Who decides who deserves what? You can save for retirement. But don't work your whole life, not save a penny, and then come to me because you think you _deserve_ a retriement, and think I should pay for it.
Young people begrudge older people stuff because the people who have it now got [some of] it with the young people's money, and the young people aren't going to get any money from the even younger.
How do I get my share of the 1.5b?
"We do not want an art exhibit, we want a web page. With stuff on it. Knowledge."
The problem is that most people who are paying to get a web site made want an art exhibit. They want it to look slick and fancy and professional. Stuff on it is an afterthought.
Or Y?
The president is allowed to break laws and lie about it.
He's just not allowed to get a blow job and lie about it.
Print server: If something craps out, and it takes me a couple days to get a replacement parts, nobody is going to have a fit. I use a white box, or salvage whatever we've got. Saves money.
Production database: Something dies. Vendor technician is there in 3 hours with a replacement part, and you're back up in 4 hours.
For random office machines, we use whatever we've got around, or buy something cheap. For production, its all IBM or Sun.
For developer laptops, we use IBM. Prices are high. Specs are low. But they're solid. (I wish I could get Apple Powerbooks, but IBM doesn't have a db2 client for osX or linux on powerpc.)
Other than this incident, what has GoDaddy done wrong?
I found SQL very hard as a beginner. I learned "connect to mydatabase user oyenstikker using lousypassword". Fine. I sounds like English. So I remembered the thoughts and not the syntax. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 12th, and 18th time, I typed "open mydatabase user oyenstikker password lousypassword", "connect mydatabase as oyenstikker with lousypassword", or something like that. If the language is an abstraction, it is easier to remember the syntax.
but I can't be bothered.
But you can be bothered to post your complaints on slashdot? It doesn't take that long to install another jre.
The writers of the constitution didn't put the second ammendment in so we could hunt deer or shoot tin cans. It is so we can protect ourselves from the government and overthrow it if necessary. It is so we can have guns that we can fight a corrupt army lead by a corrupt government.
--- tangent ---
At the time, that meant you could have your flint lock musket and flint lock single shot pistol, and probably better models than the government could afford to supply the army with. Even through the civil war, people could go buy repeating rifles (6-14 rimfire bullets) and six shot black powder revolvers, same thing the infantry had (if they were lucky enough to have repeaters - most had muzzle loading rifles). Sure, they had cannons, and a few breachloading ones at that, but you had a fighting chance.
They didn't forsee one weapon that could kill millions of people at a time. Should I be able to have one? Common sense says no. The Constitution says yes.
How is installing from source into /usr/local any harder in Debian than anywhere else? I've installed plenty of things from source in debian. ./configure usually tells me what I need to install.
Yeah, X11 has been able to do tranparency for. . .nevermind.
Michael Jackson owns enough of a percentage of whatever controls the Lennon/McCartney catalog. Paul still has a big chunk of it, and does make quite a bit of money. He and Yoko have been buying as much of it as they can for years.
IIRC, which I may not be doing, George's music is under Harrisongs, which is independant of Lennon/McCartney, and Jackson owns nothing of.