That's the paper version of what Google currently does. Hiding even the headlines and summaries is the online version of hiding the paper in an opaque dispenser. It's noteworthy that papers are regularly sold in containers that display headlines and summaries. Why should the online versions be different?
Although I am entirely on Google's side here, in the analogy above, the newspaper would be arguing that someone else owns the dispenser and is making money by selling ads on the side of it - and that the only reason that companies pay the owner of the dispenser to slap ads on it is that people are stopping by to look at the headlines on the paper inside the dispenser.
I just took some pictures of her when she was hauled out of the water in Boothbay Harbor, a couple of weeks ago. I was joking that the modern sailor was spoiled, as there was no seat of ease visible at the bow.
For every interest group when they figure out that they can target "unwanted" groups of people. And imagine what the Nazis of Germany could have done during WWII - a virus designed to kill off everyone that wasn't pure Arian.
Imagine Churchill's face when Hitler drops dead after the vial is uncorked.
I think sending Bruce Willis with a thermonuclear device and a boatload of family drama might work even better.
Modded funny but is actually insightful. What would happen is that the chance of the giant asteroid actually hitting the earth will start out less than certain, so the large expense of sending a mission to deflect it far from earth using a gentle push would result in debate and delay. Then the odds of impact will increase, but the expense of the mission will still be high. We will piss and moan, and a loud minority of self-anointed space experts who begin to say that the rock is actually going to miss, that it is all a liberal/conservative/alien conspiracy, that there is really no asteroid, etc. will get a lot of press. Finally the thing will be visible from earth and the shit will hit the fan but by then it will be too late to use mild persuasion, and we will have to send up whoever passes for Bruce Willis with a crapload of nukes. We will blow it into chunks, maybe even into gravel whose kinetic energy strips away the atmosphere.
When I read something like this, I think that it is another piece of modern self-congratulation, the kind of thinking that leads to assuming that the ancients were so stupid that aliens must have visited them to help them stack rocks. But then I look at photographs of random groups of people from about 1880-1920 and think that about half of them look like slack-jawed functional morons.
Pharmaceuticals spend billions developing new versions of dick hardening pills, while research into HIV, cancer, and other serious quality of life diseases languish.
Perhaps, but all of the traffic that Google funnels their way does provide the papers with income. This sounds like the papers are shooting themselves in the foot.
The newspaper industry has qualified for the highest rank on the shooting-yourself-in-the-foot range.
There is no fair. The CO is given complete charge of a multi-billion dollar war machine and has absolute authority over its operation and crew, therefor he has absolute responsibility for everything that happens, his fault, your fault, my fault, nobodies fault he still burns.
This is a system which will turn out commanders predisposed against taking risks. That may not be the type you want in a real shooting war. The Marines had this culture once - a "clean jacket", ie, no black marks in the career folder - was the only way to get promoted, so they realized they were getting an officer corps comprised of those who had always chosen the safe path.
What part of common sense you idiot? The part where some people are DUMPING TRASH ON PRIVATE PROPERTY??? It's like putting up a sign that says "Please don't kill the cows" around your field.
Vermont story: Farmer tired of cows being shot by NYC weekend warriors paints "COW" in white paint on both sides of his brown cow. Cow gets shot the next weekend.
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Physics.
There is no try - there is only yawn.
That's the paper version of what Google currently does. Hiding even the headlines and summaries is the online version of hiding the paper in an opaque dispenser. It's noteworthy that papers are regularly sold in containers that display headlines and summaries. Why should the online versions be different?
Although I am entirely on Google's side here, in the analogy above, the newspaper would be arguing that someone else owns the dispenser and is making money by selling ads on the side of it - and that the only reason that companies pay the owner of the dispenser to slap ads on it is that people are stopping by to look at the headlines on the paper inside the dispenser.
I just took some pictures of her when she was hauled out of the water in Boothbay Harbor, a couple of weeks ago. I was joking that the modern sailor was spoiled, as there was no seat of ease visible at the bow.
The vast majority of Christians on earth do not hold to the principle of sola Scriptura....
Maybe, but I don't live on the whole earth. I only live in the US, and here the principle is very widely held.
... Bright Atheist Plus! BA+ for short! I'll get it tattooed around my anus....
When you bend over people are going to wonder why you love Bank of America so much.
For every interest group when they figure out that they can target "unwanted" groups of people. And imagine what the Nazis of Germany could have done during WWII - a virus designed to kill off everyone that wasn't pure Arian.
Imagine Churchill's face when Hitler drops dead after the vial is uncorked.
That's a long shot plan right there.
I think sending Bruce Willis with a thermonuclear device and a boatload of family drama might work even better.
Modded funny but is actually insightful. What would happen is that the chance of the giant asteroid actually hitting the earth will start out less than certain, so the large expense of sending a mission to deflect it far from earth using a gentle push would result in debate and delay. Then the odds of impact will increase, but the expense of the mission will still be high. We will piss and moan, and a loud minority of self-anointed space experts who begin to say that the rock is actually going to miss, that it is all a liberal/conservative/alien conspiracy, that there is really no asteroid, etc. will get a lot of press. Finally the thing will be visible from earth and the shit will hit the fan but by then it will be too late to use mild persuasion, and we will have to send up whoever passes for Bruce Willis with a crapload of nukes. We will blow it into chunks, maybe even into gravel whose kinetic energy strips away the atmosphere.
When I read something like this, I think that it is another piece of modern self-congratulation, the kind of thinking that leads to assuming that the ancients were so stupid that aliens must have visited them to help them stack rocks. But then I look at photographs of random groups of people from about 1880-1920 and think that about half of them look like slack-jawed functional morons.
This is the same damn reason why I can't see most of the old MST3K shows, too.
My bet is still on the space madness.
That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
Somewhere a Microsoft marketing executive leaned back in his chair and pursed his lips. An idea was forming....
...when is someone with brains, insight and money....
In Hollywood? Where are you going to find one person with all three?
Anyway, it certainly looks the part for a cool cyberpunk character design in a movie.
Yeah, a '90s movie.
Simple engineering, and they got it wrong.
You and your "real world". They are physicists.
We broke his server. Pieces of it spewed out all over the infield.
Pharmaceuticals spend billions developing new versions of dick hardening pills, while research into HIV, cancer, and other serious quality of life diseases languish.
Bullshit.
Maybe they will arrest the phone and charge it with murder.
...get lots of hits, make no money.....
Get off the web now. You have not read the owner's manual.
Perhaps, but all of the traffic that Google funnels their way does provide the papers with income. This sounds like the papers are shooting themselves in the foot.
The newspaper industry has qualified for the highest rank on the shooting-yourself-in-the-foot range.
Somebody's bitchy. Must be that time of the month.
What - when the Comcast bill arrives?
Great. My browser has a find option, but now I'll need an unfind option to read the comments on this story to get rid of all the goatse links.
There is no fair. The CO is given complete charge of a multi-billion dollar war machine and has absolute authority over its operation and crew, therefor he has absolute responsibility for everything that happens, his fault, your fault, my fault, nobodies fault he still burns.
This is a system which will turn out commanders predisposed against taking risks. That may not be the type you want in a real shooting war. The Marines had this culture once - a "clean jacket", ie, no black marks in the career folder - was the only way to get promoted, so they realized they were getting an officer corps comprised of those who had always chosen the safe path.
Out here they just say "Squeal like a pig, boy!"
What part of common sense you idiot? The part where some people are DUMPING TRASH ON PRIVATE PROPERTY??? It's like putting up a sign that says "Please don't kill the cows" around your field.
Vermont story: Farmer tired of cows being shot by NYC weekend warriors paints "COW" in white paint on both sides of his brown cow. Cow gets shot the next weekend.