Microsoft got the UI right this time as in the got rid of everything that wasn't related to searching. So my experience so far is good. OTOH I have no good reason to switch so Google is still my go to for search. I'll keep trying Bing out though because it's early on and they may just get better than Google.
I don't hate MS I just dislike their products (excepting Word, Excel and PPT) and their licensing - always seems that you have to pay more for every little bit of functionality whether it's to MS or some 3rd party and the functionality they do include is never quite up to the task despite the obviously high amount of effort put into developing it. Here's a tip Microsoft - "You can't know what you don't know" so let other's think it up for you and give them a way to share it with your customers for free if they want.
I would love to see Google or Microsoft allow user search plugin contributions as in provide access to a search API that requires a key of course and allows them to request and parse results themselves, then add in your text ads as part of the result set.
This only applies to Individuals with unique products or scarce products. The parent post logic applies to individuals as well. Just like Windows is a commodity item now a lot of skills are commodities as well.
Historically anything that can be put into a codified process can be commoditized. First it was agriculture, then manufacturing, now information technology production (which has become a lot like manufacturing).
SO yes if you have a skillset that can not be commoditized or outsourced (yet) then you can negotiate a higher pay to compensate for taxes - otherwise you are competing against an available pool of workers who a) are willing to work for less to do the same work or b) do not have such high taxes in their region and so do not need as high a salary to maintain the same standard of living.
The only way around this is to form a Union or start your own company. Union's typically will flatten out the pay curve but ensure a higher average pay scale plus other amenities. Self-employment means you're back in the market but then you have to pay taxes again.
in the early days of the internet the people who used it all had online storage space. Most people today do not. They have whatever their ISP gives them and it's usually not much and comes with it's own issues.
OTOH if you just wanted to share with friends email still works fine. Flickr et all are about sharing with a community greater than your own small circle of friends.... like minded strangers who could become friends if only they knew you existed.
Following this logic, does it matter what domain you have? Maybe it would be better to simply use an IP address... can you register your IP address with all the popular services? A random number is less confusing than a domain that does not match your company name and yet is made up of words that communicate a name.
SO tried again with "javascript library" and got results... but still, requiring 2 keywords to get results is hardly going improve search.
A stop gap solution would be to suggest queries that do have a lot of results when someone is typing in the query or after a low result set is returned. Yes fewer results seems like it would be better but not for a general query... still needs work (hence why it's in Labs I suppose).
I get better information from a normal search. This query set is very limited (for now at least). You can only give it a broad set topic and it will only give you back more specific subsets. Nothing related, similar or tangential. Do a search for "javascript" and you get 2 results - the international standard and a link to Mozilla. Nothing about any of the popular libraries, help sites, documentation, blogs, books or history...
Do a search on Dog breeds however and you get a nice list of those as they are a discrete subset of the query term.
It's called mass delusion - ala The Matrix - and yes we've been fighting the good fight for these thousands of years and for the most part we're still in the same position we were in way back then. Scarcity of resources, the haves versus the have nots, some of the haves feeling bad about it and trying to raise up the have nots without trading places. Everything else is semantics.
Theology brings in an invisible third hand. This can be either useful or abuseful. When you have a complex social issue with many groups vying for authority of purpose but also with internal agendas... it gets really messy. Sometimes it's nice to provide a third (as in external) authority which can rise above the agendas and look at the issue from a neutral point of view ie: what is in the best interest of humanity as a whole.
Scientists and atheists generally like to think that they are capable of discounting their own agendas or just accept the fact that it's a messy problem and for most people accepting that it is a messy problem is just an admission - not a solution.
So a lot of people would prefer to believe in a Deity since they actually do realize that they are incapable of getting past their own selfish needs and don't have the time to work through the mess and can't just leave it as a mess... it's like that saying "why wait around for Mr. Right when Mr. Right Now is already here".
Science wants people to wait around while they figure out the answers... Theology has an answer already - and has had it for 2000+ years.
Just use a car analogy for guys (baseball works in some circles) or a shopping analogy for girls (sorry girls it's the only thing you all do).
That show Numb3rs provides a good example of how to create an analogy to describe a complex mathematical theorem/algorithm/concept.
I'm not saying that analogies are accurate, just that they bring the audience closer to understanding what's involved in the problem scenario. If you can get someone to understand the problem, then your solution will make a lot more sense...
In fact having just read my own words, I'd say that not stating the problem being solved for is probably the biggest mis-communication of all. Here's an example:
1) "The answer is 4096"
2) "How did you arrive at your answer? and what is it an answer for?"
1) "You wouldn't understand, it's a math problem"
2) "Try me"
1) "Nah, I depend on grant money and it doesn't pay enough for me to take time to explain the problem. The other experts in my field know what I'm talking about since they're also studying this problem and that's all I care about - peer review, not your uninformed opinion."
2) "OK, thanks then... 4096 huh... who'd a thunk it, now what's on TV tonight..."
Prexactly... that's why I don't blog much unless it's about an experiment I'm working on or something objective in general. I just don't have the time or energy to devote to a cult following. i have a family... it's the only cult I need and they're demanding enough, who wants to give all that time to a bunch of random people.
That's also why I like/. I can have my say on many topics I have an interest in without the commitment of blogging about it. I suppose the same can be said about commenting on other's blogs but then it's like writing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper - and such a small audience just doesn't feel worth the effort either (unless it is a niche interest where there's really just a small audience regardless of the forum).
SO the assumption to be made is that all the real security risk RAF have been dropped already (or cleared up their issues)... anyone else listed in this is no longer a risk.
Unfortunately those who were let go as a risk may still in fact have valuable intell, so some bad guy could potentially find an ex-RAF guy and put the squeeze on him to get said intell... still a problem.
Additionally, people who have problems like gambling, addictions, etc. may give them up long enough to get clearance but will often fall back off the wagon later - so could be a good bet to put under surveillance to see if there are new problems they have which can be exploited.
Dude, you're forgetting about copy/paste - not everyone like using good OO developing practices damnit... we like to inflate our code quantity by duplicating functions everywhere we can.
Just FYI, it's not 'shove all the rows at them', it's 'use ajax to request the rows you need and don't waste time re-rendering the other 95% of the page - and no cacheing doesn't always work'... well at least when I do it that's how it works.
hmm, you've missed an opportunity of your own making... I'll help out.
Lynton is not so much the CEO of an entertainment company as he is like a member of British Parliament circa 1773 when an unnecessary and highly inflammatory tax was imposed on Tea, culminating in a now famous protest entitled The Boston Tea Party... yes the same protest that lead to the First Continental Congress and 2 years later the start of the Revolutionary War - America's War of Independence from England.
SO if you're a Patriot you will stand up against Tyrants like Lynton who seek to subvert our America to their own greedy objectives. No Copyrights without Fair Use Rights. No Culture Taxation without Fair Duplication.
I wonder if he thought about the costs of staffing such a large workforce and where oh where would the money come from to pay for such a monstrosity. No, I don't think the public would pay for it... they've already got Uber-Cable TV which offers that model - OnDemand, Music Channels, Movie/Sports/Kids combo packs - and pay $200/month for the privilege... how many families can do that? Not many anymore - not many at the time from the looks of our credit ratings either...
So when said monstrosity goes belly up, what would be left? Poorly maintained DRM on a generation of artists work, a populace fleeced again and an industry back where it started - trying to cope with the fact that their buggy whip is no longer needed.
Biologists recently discovered that the Komodo Lizard has poison glands, long thought to have filthy mouths full of nasty bacteria... big morphology changing poison glands - which should be un-missable. Yet they missed them for 40+ years.
If you're not looking for something and have already discounted it's existence, you're chance of seeing it is drastically reduced.
Are you saying those new-age hippies are correct? We do have "Auras"... that our cells are emitting light constantly at specific wavelengths... *blasphemy*
hmmm you've invalidated your own response with the qualifier 'search'. The parent simply said 'brute-force'. I'll restate it in my own words, possibly distorting his meaning, as "trial and error" which for most purposes is equivalent to brute-force and is likely the first example of this methodology.
Your comment on genetic algorithms is completely off BTW as it refers to the output of evolution rather than the process. Actually the whole entirety of your argument is talking about biological processes rather than evolution.
So I'll just discount it as a misunderstanding and move on.
Google Base Free Database... specifically setup for storing this type of information (you'll definitely need to encrypt it). Not sure if the TOS restrict this type of usage though...
Why not a fine instead of jail... prostitutes will call it a cost of doing business and the public will profit from the ones who get caught. Use the money exclusively for a) health costs related to STDs and b) prison expenses
The only reason not to make it a fine is that by doing so society is profiting from something some people may consider immoral.
I'm actually of the opinion that prostitution is illegal not for moral reasons but to maintain the status quo. With legal sex trade there would be a lot lot more young single women working in it... which means they wouldn't be available for free and they wouldn't be working behind desks where successful men can approach them for free. Not to mention the clubs, bars, and all other industries that rely on young single non-professional women to bring in the guys who spend money... sure they may hire a few 'pros' to get the party started - attractively girls are drawn in by other attractive girls - but to be profitable they really do need the amateur talent to show up.
I think this website has a list of websites that prove otherwise.
Flash may only be used for those things on the sites you tend to visit.
Do you never go to an official Game site or Movie site? They all use Flash and usually in interesting ways.... ways that you can't recreate in html/javascript/css or even svg...
Web browsers have a long way to go before they support composited media.
Why would you do that? It's likely far cheaper to get them stamped at a local shop or just burn copies yourself and let people know they're burned copies... sell them for $5 or whatever or even give them away with a note that they can buy a stamped copy at Amazon.
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Microsoft got the UI right this time as in the got rid of everything that wasn't related to searching. So my experience so far is good. OTOH I have no good reason to switch so Google is still my go to for search. I'll keep trying Bing out though because it's early on and they may just get better than Google.
I don't hate MS I just dislike their products (excepting Word, Excel and PPT) and their licensing - always seems that you have to pay more for every little bit of functionality whether it's to MS or some 3rd party and the functionality they do include is never quite up to the task despite the obviously high amount of effort put into developing it. Here's a tip Microsoft - "You can't know what you don't know" so let other's think it up for you and give them a way to share it with your customers for free if they want.
I would love to see Google or Microsoft allow user search plugin contributions as in provide access to a search API that requires a key of course and allows them to request and parse results themselves, then add in your text ads as part of the result set.
This only applies to Individuals with unique products or scarce products. The parent post logic applies to individuals as well. Just like Windows is a commodity item now a lot of skills are commodities as well.
Historically anything that can be put into a codified process can be commoditized. First it was agriculture, then manufacturing, now information technology production (which has become a lot like manufacturing).
SO yes if you have a skillset that can not be commoditized or outsourced (yet) then you can negotiate a higher pay to compensate for taxes - otherwise you are competing against an available pool of workers who a) are willing to work for less to do the same work or b) do not have such high taxes in their region and so do not need as high a salary to maintain the same standard of living.
The only way around this is to form a Union or start your own company. Union's typically will flatten out the pay curve but ensure a higher average pay scale plus other amenities. Self-employment means you're back in the market but then you have to pay taxes again.
in the early days of the internet the people who used it all had online storage space. Most people today do not. They have whatever their ISP gives them and it's usually not much and comes with it's own issues.
OTOH if you just wanted to share with friends email still works fine. Flickr et all are about sharing with a community greater than your own small circle of friends.... like minded strangers who could become friends if only they knew you existed.
Following this logic, does it matter what domain you have? Maybe it would be better to simply use an IP address... can you register your IP address with all the popular services? A random number is less confusing than a domain that does not match your company name and yet is made up of words that communicate a name.
SO tried again with "javascript library" and got results... but still, requiring 2 keywords to get results is hardly going improve search.
A stop gap solution would be to suggest queries that do have a lot of results when someone is typing in the query or after a low result set is returned. Yes fewer results seems like it would be better but not for a general query... still needs work (hence why it's in Labs I suppose).
I get better information from a normal search. This query set is very limited (for now at least). You can only give it a broad set topic and it will only give you back more specific subsets. Nothing related, similar or tangential. Do a search for "javascript" and you get 2 results - the international standard and a link to Mozilla. Nothing about any of the popular libraries, help sites, documentation, blogs, books or history...
Do a search on Dog breeds however and you get a nice list of those as they are a discrete subset of the query term.
It's called mass delusion - ala The Matrix - and yes we've been fighting the good fight for these thousands of years and for the most part we're still in the same position we were in way back then. Scarcity of resources, the haves versus the have nots, some of the haves feeling bad about it and trying to raise up the have nots without trading places. Everything else is semantics.
Theology brings in an invisible third hand. This can be either useful or abuseful. When you have a complex social issue with many groups vying for authority of purpose but also with internal agendas... it gets really messy. Sometimes it's nice to provide a third (as in external) authority which can rise above the agendas and look at the issue from a neutral point of view ie: what is in the best interest of humanity as a whole.
Scientists and atheists generally like to think that they are capable of discounting their own agendas or just accept the fact that it's a messy problem and for most people accepting that it is a messy problem is just an admission - not a solution.
So a lot of people would prefer to believe in a Deity since they actually do realize that they are incapable of getting past their own selfish needs and don't have the time to work through the mess and can't just leave it as a mess... it's like that saying "why wait around for Mr. Right when Mr. Right Now is already here".
Science wants people to wait around while they figure out the answers... Theology has an answer already - and has had it for 2000+ years.
Just use a car analogy for guys (baseball works in some circles) or a shopping analogy for girls (sorry girls it's the only thing you all do).
That show Numb3rs provides a good example of how to create an analogy to describe a complex mathematical theorem/algorithm/concept.
I'm not saying that analogies are accurate, just that they bring the audience closer to understanding what's involved in the problem scenario. If you can get someone to understand the problem, then your solution will make a lot more sense...
In fact having just read my own words, I'd say that not stating the problem being solved for is probably the biggest mis-communication of all. Here's an example:
1) "The answer is 4096"
2) "How did you arrive at your answer? and what is it an answer for?"
1) "You wouldn't understand, it's a math problem"
2) "Try me"
1) "Nah, I depend on grant money and it doesn't pay enough for me to take time to explain the problem. The other experts in my field know what I'm talking about since they're also studying this problem and that's all I care about - peer review, not your uninformed opinion."
2) "OK, thanks then... 4096 huh... who'd a thunk it, now what's on TV tonight..."
Prexactly... that's why I don't blog much unless it's about an experiment I'm working on or something objective in general. I just don't have the time or energy to devote to a cult following. i have a family... it's the only cult I need and they're demanding enough, who wants to give all that time to a bunch of random people.
That's also why I like /. I can have my say on many topics I have an interest in without the commitment of blogging about it. I suppose the same can be said about commenting on other's blogs but then it's like writing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper - and such a small audience just doesn't feel worth the effort either (unless it is a niche interest where there's really just a small audience regardless of the forum).
SO the assumption to be made is that all the real security risk RAF have been dropped already (or cleared up their issues)... anyone else listed in this is no longer a risk.
Unfortunately those who were let go as a risk may still in fact have valuable intell, so some bad guy could potentially find an ex-RAF guy and put the squeeze on him to get said intell... still a problem.
Additionally, people who have problems like gambling, addictions, etc. may give them up long enough to get clearance but will often fall back off the wagon later - so could be a good bet to put under surveillance to see if there are new problems they have which can be exploited.
Dude, you're forgetting about copy/paste - not everyone like using good OO developing practices damnit... we like to inflate our code quantity by duplicating functions everywhere we can.
Just FYI, it's not 'shove all the rows at them', it's 'use ajax to request the rows you need and don't waste time re-rendering the other 95% of the page - and no cacheing doesn't always work'... well at least when I do it that's how it works.
hmm, you've missed an opportunity of your own making... I'll help out.
Lynton is not so much the CEO of an entertainment company as he is like a member of British Parliament circa 1773 when an unnecessary and highly inflammatory tax was imposed on Tea, culminating in a now famous protest entitled The Boston Tea Party... yes the same protest that lead to the First Continental Congress and 2 years later the start of the Revolutionary War - America's War of Independence from England.
SO if you're a Patriot you will stand up against Tyrants like Lynton who seek to subvert our America to their own greedy objectives. No Copyrights without Fair Use Rights. No Culture Taxation without Fair Duplication.
I wonder if he thought about the costs of staffing such a large workforce and where oh where would the money come from to pay for such a monstrosity. No, I don't think the public would pay for it... they've already got Uber-Cable TV which offers that model - OnDemand, Music Channels, Movie/Sports/Kids combo packs - and pay $200/month for the privilege... how many families can do that? Not many anymore - not many at the time from the looks of our credit ratings either...
So when said monstrosity goes belly up, what would be left? Poorly maintained DRM on a generation of artists work, a populace fleeced again and an industry back where it started - trying to cope with the fact that their buggy whip is no longer needed.
Biologists recently discovered that the Komodo Lizard has poison glands, long thought to have filthy mouths full of nasty bacteria... big morphology changing poison glands - which should be un-missable. Yet they missed them for 40+ years.
If you're not looking for something and have already discounted it's existence, you're chance of seeing it is drastically reduced.
Are you saying those new-age hippies are correct? We do have "Auras"... that our cells are emitting light constantly at specific wavelengths... *blasphemy*
hmmm you've invalidated your own response with the qualifier 'search'. The parent simply said 'brute-force'. I'll restate it in my own words, possibly distorting his meaning, as "trial and error" which for most purposes is equivalent to brute-force and is likely the first example of this methodology.
Your comment on genetic algorithms is completely off BTW as it refers to the output of evolution rather than the process. Actually the whole entirety of your argument is talking about biological processes rather than evolution.
So I'll just discount it as a misunderstanding and move on.
Google Base Free Database... specifically setup for storing this type of information (you'll definitely need to encrypt it). Not sure if the TOS restrict this type of usage though...
Why not a fine instead of jail... prostitutes will call it a cost of doing business and the public will profit from the ones who get caught. Use the money exclusively for a) health costs related to STDs and b) prison expenses
The only reason not to make it a fine is that by doing so society is profiting from something some people may consider immoral.
I'm actually of the opinion that prostitution is illegal not for moral reasons but to maintain the status quo. With legal sex trade there would be a lot lot more young single women working in it... which means they wouldn't be available for free and they wouldn't be working behind desks where successful men can approach them for free. Not to mention the clubs, bars, and all other industries that rely on young single non-professional women to bring in the guys who spend money... sure they may hire a few 'pros' to get the party started - attractively girls are drawn in by other attractive girls - but to be profitable they really do need the amateur talent to show up.
I think this website has a list of websites that prove otherwise.
Flash may only be used for those things on the sites you tend to visit.
Do you never go to an official Game site or Movie site? They all use Flash and usually in interesting ways.... ways that you can't recreate in html/javascript/css or even svg...
Web browsers have a long way to go before they support composited media.
Someone should make an HTML 5 plugin that adds support to older browsers....
What SVG needs is a compiler that will convert the XML to something much more optimized.
Why would you do that? It's likely far cheaper to get them stamped at a local shop or just burn copies yourself and let people know they're burned copies... sell them for $5 or whatever or even give them away with a note that they can buy a stamped copy at Amazon.
First Track:
"To find out more about our band, visit 'www.ourband.info'."
problem solved. Nothing in the TOS about promoting in the audio (from the quoted text here).