Well, Google has got everyone beat in this regard. "Google" is probably the first thing a baby says (and hence I'm sure it is hardwired into our brains). The only thing that could beat "Google" would be "dada" or "burp". Any takers?
You joke, but a search engine named Dada would likely be well received for the name, and if it was a good system it could find a nice user base. I mean it has taken Google *years* to perfect its systems and they started with a good premise: do no evil. That was when all the search engines were cashing in on ads. A lot of people were turned off of the internet because of that, until Google came along. So it was purposeful, not evil, and light/easy to use.
My suggestion to anyone trying to take on Google is that they should do something else unless google becomes evil, and because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely -- it's just a matter of time before Google turns evil. Maybe not, though.:-)
New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google More like New Clustering Search Engine goes Beta. Let's wait until it's production stable before talking about who it's going to take down in a fist fight reminiscent of the Spock/Kirk battle in Amok Time.
Clusty by Vivisimo? Did I even spell that right? They need to consider naming things that people can: A) pronounce B) spell C) are actual words or at least close to words that qualify for both A & B.
Clusty sounds like something you would call the fat cheerleader. It also will be often mispronounced as Klutsy, so it's a very bad name for a search engine (of all things).
The search engine uses Overture for it's results but offers new features such as an encyclopedia search, clustered results, and a gossip search.
This is a Microsoft tactic: add features to get market share, and it's an evil tactic because nothing new comes out of it, except bloat and bad karma. The fact this is based on Overature leads me to believe that it won't be able to take Google head-on at all. Clusty uses the Google interface but shows sponsored results first (evil), and displays 404 pages in the results. (FYI dteam was the first 3d design guild that is no longer)
I don't think they really have a hope of competing with Google. If it ain't broke don't fix it, so most people will just continue to use Google.
Yeah who would have thought Sun would change their behaviour after that famous settlement? I mean this patent reads like, "we are going to calculate how to make lots of money and double it by preventing others from doing the same".
Schwartz did say that any money the patents generate will be donated to charities.
Yeah, sure. What percentage? There is absolutely no way to qualify that shit, so I don't buy it. Business plays the charity card when they know the public image will take a hit from a particular action. The Cnet title reads "Sun's Schwartz guns for patent glories", not Sun donates 100% of patent earnings to Cancer cure or anything like that.
Seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno...
Dude you just got trolled. Read the GP. Anyone could paste that into any story and trigger responses. It's not really about this article... just a Troll.
Keeping Microsoft Happy... The cover has Gates in a gorilla suit.
Lots and lots of bananas.
I report on Microsoft's use of Nevada corporations to avoid approximately $327 million in Washington state taxes while telling voters they need to pay more to fund education.
Halflife2.net was able to get an exclusive interview with Chuck Osborn from PCGamer
So what happens when a journalist interviews a journalist anyway? That's not good journalism, IMHO.
FTA: * Standard Edition - includes HL2 and CS:Source. Ships on six CDs, in one of three box-art packages (Gordon, Alyx or the G-Man). * Collector's Edition - includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, a Half-Life 2 T-shirt and a Prima book sampler. Ships on a single DVD.
First I would like to say that Vivendi Universal has pulled crap in the past related to shipping and hr practices, and other crap, and other crap, and that means it's an unstable publisher in my books.
We're not sure if Steam will have HL2 or not. It's up to Vivendi last I checked. We're not sure if CS Source will be considered part of the Vivendi distro or not either. Speculation upon speculation at this point, IMHO. Note that this was a PC Gamer guy who was interviewed by some other guy
If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless?
Let me think about this...
Kind: Here you go my Sim children. Play and enjoy life. Be fruitful and multiply. Please don't eat the fruit from that tree of knowledge because I'm saving it for a pie.
Cruel: How dare you eat my apples! {Godly voice}Locust Storm!!!! Aieeeeeeee!!!! (billions of puppy-dog sized locusts ravage village)
Careless: *sigh* I'm a n00b. What does this button with a pointy letter S do? Only one way to find out! {click} (lightning bolts fly from Heaven destroying entire village)
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other nature films as "Earwigs, Ew." and "Man Vs Nature... The Road To Victory".
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other medical films as "Mommy, What's On That Man's Face?" and "Alice Doesn't Live Anymore".
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such self-help videos as "Smoke Yourself Thin", and "Get Confident, Stupid.".
Welcome to the Knowledgeum, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such automated information kiosks as "Welcome to Springfield Airport" and "Where's Nordstrom?" While you're enjoying our Hall of Wonders, your car unfortunately will be subject to repeated break-ins and... [Fades]
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".
I'm actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from such TV series as "Buck Henderson, Union Buster" and "Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory". Today I'm here to tell you about "Spiffy.", the 21st century stain remover. Let's meet the inventor, Dr. Nick Riviera.
He does it on volume through his business. The rate is always less than $30-flat for whatever, be it installs of hardware, software, OS reinstall with ghost drives and full software installs. No matter how many you do at once it's always less than $30 CAD.
What you might fail to realize is that this company took all the business away from the rest of the competitors by doing this, so whenever I use him I know my system is gone for about four days because of the long line of customers they have.
They are really good too, because so far I haven't needed their services for about a year and a half.
The recent shutdown of LAX due to an FAA radio outage was apparently caused by a Windows 2000 integration flaw, possibility related to an old Windows 95 bug.
Okay... a Win95 bug leads to the LAX shutdown because the *same* bug was later found in Win2k? Yup, closed source is the answer, Mr. Gates. I hereby repent my sins of Open Source Freedom and agree that security by obscurity is the answer!/sarcasm
a technician didn't reboot the system monthly as he should have
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem? (Please press the Start button to shut down (stop) the computer.)
I am a firm believer that if you own a car, you should be able to change a tire, and change the oil. Basic matinence.
That's what CAA is for. If you own a computer you should be able to turn it on and use the programs on it. If you need anything else, you should have the phone number to a really good/inexpensive techie. I never ever waste time with installs or anything like that. A guy I know does all that for $20-flat, so I can do other stuff (like play PS2) and I get a superb/secure setup for cheap.
Let's eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Computers are much more than tools for information, but I'm sure I don't have to tell any of you that... Sometimes I think my computer has a soul of its own -- until I realize that's my soul... (well at least the energy of infinite keypresses)
What a ignorant, short-sighted (and possibly mean-spirited) thing to say.
Obviously you don't have a n00b who comes to you for computer help. It's just a fact that AOL should not be complicating their users this way. It is going to end up in techsupport Hell, and that was my point.
It's not mean spirited to speak the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts and that's why it's the truth.
1) it only lasts 60 seconds 2) if used , it can't be used again until the minute is up
Yup that will work for 1% of AOL users. The rest are screwed if it ever becomes mandatory. Sixty seconds is not enough time for about 99% of all AOL users. They'll spend the first 30 seconds trying to get the first password in and then type in the second password in the next thirty seconds -- only to figure out they got the two mixed up. Then they will spend all day typing in the same two passwords until they phone AOL at around 3:30pm.
Do you believe every blog is true? No. There is no way to tell if this one is or is not true, and it doesn't matter. It's still just another rag on the net... nothing to see here, move along.
Saw the trailer at a showing of Sky Captain... I tend to show up late enough to skip the commercials. It sucks because I miss previews but at least I don't have to put up with the commercials.
Aren't you a dumbfuck... Jumping to conclusions without due research.
You, Sir, are an ignoramus. I'm going to let my friends know about it by foe'ing you. You are an ignoramus for saying such a thing, while you have failed to even consider both sides of the story.
Have you ever worked in a hospital before? Nurses bid on *extra* work? That notion is laughable. Nurses are some of the most overworked employees, even more so than programmers. There is a nurse shortage -- meaning there are loads of hours that can not be worked because of employee exhaustion, not that there is a huge amount of money to be made. These hospitals think there is going to be profit from competition for shifts but schemes like these will only deter students from the nursing profession -- even nurses who have "the calling". Now these nurses can get pushed around by administration, pushed around by doctors, screamed at by patients, bullied and beaten down by long hours and low wages -- *and* they have to do it for less money because some people want to be sure to get their shifts so they underbid greatly. Repeat: low bidders get the hours, meaning if you want to work a shift, you have to bid on it -- any shift (and if it's not that way now, it will go that way inevitably once the hospitals realize how much money can be saved screwing employees out of their just salaries). So instead of having job security, you now have a complicated infrastructure to mess with in order to ensure you can pay bills. Not that nurses don't have enough crap to deal with, but now they have to do this too!
This article, among many recently posted on Slashdot is another herald to the widening gap between the classes, and the rapid decline of the middle class. Pretty soon we'll be bidding on the air we breathe, except then the high bidder gets a breath.
Scam! Yeah like I'm going to pay you to hire me or provide me with extra work if I'm employed with you. That is exactly what low-bid hiring amounts to -- corporate kickbacks. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of and I hope all the companies involved get exactly what they have coming to them -- loads and loads of malpractice suits. That's about as much as they'll get from hiring low-bidders. The job market is tough enough on job hunters to have to undercut your own salary in order to have an advantage in job hunting. Many employees take back from the company in order to offset low enough salaries! If the rest of the job market decides to follow suit, this could be a catastrophe.
Why don't they have online queues for hospital waiting rooms? That's because they *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room so that the hospital can help ensure they get better funding, or at least that's the way it is in Canada. They spend all kinds of money on eShift to get it running and all the nurses buy into it because they are either too tired to realize they're being screwed by the system, or they have no choice. *sigh*
This reminds me of some shady business practices in the petroleum industry. Once a project I was bidding on went to the competition because we refused to kickback a large diamond to the guy in charge of purchasing for this huge company. Yes, he wanted a diamond. Not sure why but I'm guessing he was going to tie a fob to it and use it for office-oriented bling-bling. Either that or he wanted to cut a safe open...
Slashdot Mirror
"Can you hear me now? What do you mean you can't tell me that?"
Sure you can joke about this, but I remember when this story first came to Slashdot and the comments ranged from angry people calling this move nothing but exploitation of the terror card, to Score: 5 OT posts about 9/11 with possible evidence that planes were shot down by the USAF.
My take is that these kinds of laws only prove that the USA is rapidly becoming fascist.
Okay so a program asks for help from another program. I guess the internet now belongs to Kodak!
I do not welcome this.
Well, Google has got everyone beat in this regard. "Google" is probably the first thing a baby says (and hence I'm sure it is hardwired into our brains). The only thing that could beat "Google" would be "dada" or "burp". Any takers?
:-)
You joke, but a search engine named Dada would likely be well received for the name, and if it was a good system it could find a nice user base. I mean it has taken Google *years* to perfect its systems and they started with a good premise: do no evil. That was when all the search engines were cashing in on ads. A lot of people were turned off of the internet because of that, until Google came along. So it was purposeful, not evil, and light/easy to use.
My suggestion to anyone trying to take on Google is that they should do something else unless google becomes evil, and because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely -- it's just a matter of time before Google turns evil. Maybe not, though.
But anyway, this does look interested.
I think there's your first clue for why your story was rejected.
New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google
More like New Clustering Search Engine goes Beta. Let's wait until it's production stable before talking about who it's going to take down in a fist fight reminiscent of the Spock/Kirk battle in Amok Time.
Clusty by Vivisimo? Did I even spell that right? They need to consider naming things that people can:
A) pronounce
B) spell
C) are actual words or at least close to words that qualify for both A & B.
Clusty sounds like something you would call the fat cheerleader. It also will be often mispronounced as Klutsy, so it's a very bad name for a search engine (of all things).
The search engine uses Overture for it's results but offers new features such as an encyclopedia search, clustered results, and a gossip search.
This is a Microsoft tactic: add features to get market share, and it's an evil tactic because nothing new comes out of it, except bloat and bad karma. The fact this is based on Overature leads me to believe that it won't be able to take Google head-on at all. Clusty uses the Google interface but shows sponsored results first (evil), and displays 404 pages in the results. (FYI dteam was the first 3d design guild that is no longer)
I don't think they really have a hope of competing with Google. If it ain't broke don't fix it, so most people will just continue to use Google.
Yeah who would have thought Sun would change their behaviour after that famous settlement? I mean this patent reads like, "we are going to calculate how to make lots of money and double it by preventing others from doing the same".
Schwartz did say that any money the patents generate will be donated to charities.
Yeah, sure. What percentage? There is absolutely no way to qualify that shit, so I don't buy it. Business plays the charity card when they know the public image will take a hit from a particular action. The Cnet title reads "Sun's Schwartz guns for patent glories", not Sun donates 100% of patent earnings to Cancer cure or anything like that.
Seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno...
Dude you just got trolled. Read the GP. Anyone could paste that into any story and trigger responses. It's not really about this article... just a Troll.
that story was porrly written.
Even if it was true, you can't state such things if you can't spell or use proper capitalization. Troll post. *sigh*
Keeping Microsoft Happy ... The cover has Gates in a gorilla suit.
Lots and lots of bananas.
I report on Microsoft's use of Nevada corporations to avoid approximately $327 million in Washington state taxes while telling voters they need to pay more to fund education.
Now that's a monkey business!
Halflife2.net was able to get an exclusive interview with Chuck Osborn from PCGamer
So what happens when a journalist interviews a journalist anyway? That's not good journalism, IMHO.
FTA:
* Standard Edition - includes HL2 and CS:Source. Ships on six CDs, in one of three box-art packages (Gordon, Alyx or the G-Man).
* Collector's Edition - includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, a Half-Life 2 T-shirt and a Prima book sampler. Ships on a single DVD.
First I would like to say that Vivendi Universal has pulled crap in the past related to shipping and hr practices, and other crap, and other crap, and that means it's an unstable publisher in my books.
We're not sure if Steam will have HL2 or not. It's up to Vivendi last I checked. We're not sure if CS Source will be considered part of the Vivendi distro or not either. Speculation upon speculation at this point, IMHO. Note that this was a PC Gamer guy who was interviewed by some other guy
If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless?
Let me think about this...
Kind: Here you go my Sim children. Play and enjoy life. Be fruitful and multiply. Please don't eat the fruit from that tree of knowledge because I'm saving it for a pie.
Cruel: How dare you eat my apples! {Godly voice} Locust Storm!!!! Aieeeeeeee!!!! (billions of puppy-dog sized locusts ravage village)
Careless: *sigh* I'm a n00b. What does this button with a pointy letter S do? Only one way to find out! {click} (lightning bolts fly from Heaven destroying entire village)
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other nature films as "Earwigs, Ew." and "Man Vs Nature... The Road To Victory".
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other medical films as "Mommy, What's On That Man's Face?" and "Alice Doesn't Live Anymore".
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such self-help videos as "Smoke Yourself Thin", and "Get Confident, Stupid.".
Welcome to the Knowledgeum, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such automated information kiosks as "Welcome to Springfield Airport" and "Where's Nordstrom?" While you're enjoying our Hall of Wonders, your car unfortunately will be subject to repeated break-ins and... [Fades]
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".
I'm actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from such TV series as "Buck Henderson, Union Buster" and "Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory". Today I'm here to tell you about "Spiffy.", the 21st century stain remover. Let's meet the inventor, Dr. Nick Riviera.
etc...
it's not even that. The 1 sentence blurb should read "Governor signed bill forcing stores to explain ESRB rating".
Exactly.
FTA: Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure aimed at curbing sales of violent video games to children.
Slashdot: Also he signed a bill to limit the sale of video games.
There seems to be a huge difference between these statements. Can you spot it?
He does it on volume through his business. The rate is always less than $30-flat for whatever, be it installs of hardware, software, OS reinstall with ghost drives and full software installs. No matter how many you do at once it's always less than $30 CAD.
What you might fail to realize is that this company took all the business away from the rest of the competitors by doing this, so whenever I use him I know my system is gone for about four days because of the long line of customers they have.
They are really good too, because so far I haven't needed their services for about a year and a half.
The recent shutdown of LAX due to an FAA radio outage was apparently caused by a Windows 2000 integration flaw, possibility related to an old Windows 95 bug.
/sarcasm
Okay... a Win95 bug leads to the LAX shutdown because the *same* bug was later found in Win2k? Yup, closed source is the answer, Mr. Gates. I hereby repent my sins of Open Source Freedom and agree that security by obscurity is the answer!
a technician didn't reboot the system monthly as he should have
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem? (Please press the Start button to shut down (stop) the computer.)
I am a firm believer that if you own a car, you should be able to change a tire, and change the oil. Basic matinence.
That's what CAA is for. If you own a computer you should be able to turn it on and use the programs on it. If you need anything else, you should have the phone number to a really good/inexpensive techie. I never ever waste time with installs or anything like that. A guy I know does all that for $20-flat, so I can do other stuff (like play PS2) and I get a superb/secure setup for cheap.
Burn the heretic!
Let's eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Computers are much more than tools for information, but I'm sure I don't have to tell any of you that... Sometimes I think my computer has a soul of its own -- until I realize that's my soul... (well at least the energy of infinite keypresses)
What a ignorant, short-sighted (and possibly mean-spirited) thing to say.
Obviously you don't have a n00b who comes to you for computer help. It's just a fact that AOL should not be complicating their users this way. It is going to end up in techsupport Hell, and that was my point.
It's not mean spirited to speak the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts and that's why it's the truth.
1) it only lasts 60 seconds
2) if used , it can't be used again until the minute is up
Yup that will work for 1% of AOL users. The rest are screwed if it ever becomes mandatory. Sixty seconds is not enough time for about 99% of all AOL users. They'll spend the first 30 seconds trying to get the first password in and then type in the second password in the next thirty seconds -- only to figure out they got the two mixed up. Then they will spend all day typing in the same two passwords until they phone AOL at around 3:30pm.
Do you believe every blog is true?
No. There is no way to tell if this one is or is not true, and it doesn't matter. It's still just another rag on the net... nothing to see here, move along.
Saw the trailer at a showing of Sky Captain...
I tend to show up late enough to skip the commercials. It sucks because I miss previews but at least I don't have to put up with the commercials.
Aren't you a dumbfuck... Jumping to conclusions without due research.
You, Sir, are an ignoramus. I'm going to let my friends know about it by foe'ing you. You are an ignoramus for saying such a thing, while you have failed to even consider both sides of the story.
Have you ever worked in a hospital before? Nurses bid on *extra* work? That notion is laughable. Nurses are some of the most overworked employees, even more so than programmers. There is a nurse shortage -- meaning there are loads of hours that can not be worked because of employee exhaustion, not that there is a huge amount of money to be made. These hospitals think there is going to be profit from competition for shifts but schemes like these will only deter students from the nursing profession -- even nurses who have "the calling". Now these nurses can get pushed around by administration, pushed around by doctors, screamed at by patients, bullied and beaten down by long hours and low wages -- *and* they have to do it for less money because some people want to be sure to get their shifts so they underbid greatly. Repeat: low bidders get the hours, meaning if you want to work a shift, you have to bid on it -- any shift (and if it's not that way now, it will go that way inevitably once the hospitals realize how much money can be saved screwing employees out of their just salaries). So instead of having job security, you now have a complicated infrastructure to mess with in order to ensure you can pay bills. Not that nurses don't have enough crap to deal with, but now they have to do this too!
This article, among many recently posted on Slashdot is another herald to the widening gap between the classes, and the rapid decline of the middle class. Pretty soon we'll be bidding on the air we breathe, except then the high bidder gets a breath.
Okay... somebody doesn't know what triage is.
Okay... somebody doesn't know what sarcasm is.
Scam! Yeah like I'm going to pay you to hire me or provide me with extra work if I'm employed with you. That is exactly what low-bid hiring amounts to -- corporate kickbacks. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of and I hope all the companies involved get exactly what they have coming to them -- loads and loads of malpractice suits. That's about as much as they'll get from hiring low-bidders. The job market is tough enough on job hunters to have to undercut your own salary in order to have an advantage in job hunting. Many employees take back from the company in order to offset low enough salaries! If the rest of the job market decides to follow suit, this could be a catastrophe.
Why don't they have online queues for hospital waiting rooms? That's because they *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room so that the hospital can help ensure they get better funding, or at least that's the way it is in Canada. They spend all kinds of money on eShift to get it running and all the nurses buy into it because they are either too tired to realize they're being screwed by the system, or they have no choice. *sigh*
This reminds me of some shady business practices in the petroleum industry. Once a project I was bidding on went to the competition because we refused to kickback a large diamond to the guy in charge of purchasing for this huge company. Yes, he wanted a diamond. Not sure why but I'm guessing he was going to tie a fob to it and use it for office-oriented bling-bling. Either that or he wanted to cut a safe open...
eShift == eShit